{"id":191983,"date":"2024-06-27T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/revealing-the-interior-structure-of-the-suns-supergranules"},"modified":"2024-06-27T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:24:20","slug":"revealing-the-interior-structure-of-the-suns-supergranules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/revealing-the-interior-structure-of-the-suns-supergranules","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the Interior Structure of the Sun\u2019s Supergranules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revealing-the-interior-structure-of-the-suns-supergranules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupergranules are a significant component of the heat transport mechanisms of the sun, but they present a serious challenge for scientists to understand,\u201d said Dr. Shravan Hanasoge.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How does the Sun\u2019s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02304-w\">recent study<\/a> published in <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em> hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU Abu Dhabi) investigated how the Sun delivers heat from its interior to the surface, also known as convection, through its supergranules, whose individual structures have diameters three times greater than the Earth. This study holds the potential to help researchers better understand the Sun\u2019s convection processes while also challenging previous hypotheses about the Sun\u2019s convection, as well.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, the researchers conducted one of the most in-depth analyses of the Sun\u2019s supergranuales using NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, to examine approximately 23,000 supergranules across the Sun\u2019s surface. The team used sound waves to examine the supergranules\u2019 interiors, which previous studies have also done, as well. Through this, the team was able to measure upflows and downflows with incredible precision compared to past studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSupergranules are a significant component of the heat transport mechanisms of the sun, but they present a serious challenge for scientists to understand,\u201d said Dr. Shravan Hanasoge. How does the Sun\u2019s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191983","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}