NASA Parker Solar Probe creates first map of Sun’s shifting outer atmosphere revealing solar wind dynamics

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has mapped the Sun's Alfvén surface, the boundary where solar wind escapes the corona. These ...

Sun’s jagged outer boundary tracked: Where solar wind breaks free

Scientists have mapped the sun’s outer atmosphere, revealing where solar wind escapes and magnetic influence ends. How does ...
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Parker Solar Probe mapped a hidden part of the sun at peak activity

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...