{"id":199488,"date":"2024-11-14T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/kinetic-alfven-waves-may-be-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:27:53","slug":"kinetic-alfven-waves-may-be-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/kinetic-alfven-waves-may-be-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating","title":{"rendered":"Kinetic Alfv\u00e9n waves may be key to mystery of solar corona heating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kinetic-alfven-waves-may-be-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfv\u00e9n waves (KAW) as a possible explanation for why the solar corona, the outermost layer of the sun\u2019s atmosphere, is approximately 200 times hotter than the surface of the sun itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfv\u00e9n waves (KAW) as a possible explanation for why the solar corona, the outermost layer of the sun\u2019s atmosphere, is approximately 200 times hotter than 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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199488","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=199488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}