Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...

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Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets that energy explode in a solar flare has been stubbornly elusive. Now, a new ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...

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Solar Orbiter reveals that major solar flares arise from cascading weak magnetic disturbances, producing avalanche-like reconnection and rain of plasma blobs. (Nanowerk News) Just as avalanches on ...