{"id":163989,"date":"2023-05-16T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-close-ups-of-a-source-of-energetic-particles-expelled-from-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-05-16T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:24:08","slug":"first-close-ups-of-a-source-of-energetic-particles-expelled-from-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-close-ups-of-a-source-of-energetic-particles-expelled-from-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"First close-ups of a source of energetic particles expelled from the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-close-ups-of-a-source-of-energetic-particles-expelled-from-the-sun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Impulsive or Helium-3 enriched solar energetic particle (SEP) events, characterized by Helium-3 and ultra-heavy ion abundances, show high association with type III radio bursts. Minor (B-or C-class) GOES soft X-ray flares often accompany these events.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports on such events measured in clusters from sub-flares in single active regions, where abundance showed significant variations. Imaging observations revealed that sources of these recurrent Helium-3 enriched are jets from solar plages (patches of scattered magnetic fields) or coronal hole edges.<\/p>\n<p>From a distance of only half an astronomical unit (AU), or around 46.5 million miles, scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have made the first close-up observations of a source of energetic particles ejected from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/sun\/\">Sun<\/a>. ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter provided high-resolution images of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/solar-flare\/\">solar flare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impulsive or Helium-3 enriched solar energetic particle (SEP) events, characterized by Helium-3 and ultra-heavy ion abundances, show high association with type III radio bursts. Minor (B-or C-class) GOES soft X-ray flares often accompany these events. There are reports on such events measured in clusters from sub-flares in single active regions, where abundance showed significant variations. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}