NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Finds Surprises in an Explosion Near the Sun

Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection. Now, observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have uncovered new details about how these types of magnetic events fling particles to dangerous speeds. On a 2022 solar flyby, Parker Solar […] The post NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Finds Surprises in an Explosion Near the Sun appeared first on NASA Science.