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World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
"It's a landmark moment in solar science."
The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery that powers the ferocious flares that routinely blast out from our star. Basically, solar flares are produced when magnetic field lines that loop through the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, grow taut and snap, releasing energy before reconnecting once again. (Image credit: NSF/NSO/AURA)How these small loops play into the process of magnetic reconnection isn't yet clear, but now that scientists know that they are there, they can start to fit them into their models of how the sun operates.
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