{"id":190011,"date":"2024-05-24T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasa-supercomputer-solves-400-year-old-solar-magnetic-puzzle"},"modified":"2024-05-24T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T02:25:39","slug":"nasa-supercomputer-solves-400-year-old-solar-magnetic-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasa-supercomputer-solves-400-year-old-solar-magnetic-puzzle","title":{"rendered":"NASA Supercomputer Solves 400-Year-Old Solar Magnetic Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-supercomputer-solves-400-year-old-solar-magnetic-puzzle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new study reveals the sun\u2019s magnetic field originates closer to the surface, solving a 400-year-old mystery first probed by Galileo and enhancing solar storm forecasting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University engineers, is getting closer to solving a 400-year-old solar mystery that stumped even famed astronomer Galileo Galilei.<\/p>\n<p>Since first observing the sun\u2019s magnetic activity, astronomers have struggled to pinpoint where the process originates. Now, after running a series of complex calculations on a NASA supercomputer, the researchers discovered the magnetic field is generated about 20,000 miles below the sun\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals the sun\u2019s magnetic field originates closer to the surface, solving a 400-year-old mystery first probed by Galileo and enhancing solar storm forecasting. An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University engineers, is getting closer to solving a 400-year-old solar mystery that stumped even famed astronomer Galileo Galilei. Since first observing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190011","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}