{"id":224001,"date":"2025-10-25T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-discover-elusive-solar-waves-that-could-power-the-suns-corona"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:18:40","slug":"scientists-discover-elusive-solar-waves-that-could-power-the-suns-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-discover-elusive-solar-waves-that-could-power-the-suns-corona","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover elusive solar waves that could power the sun\u2019s corona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-elusive-solar-waves-that-could-power-the-suns-corona.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfv\u00e9n waves in the sun\u2019s corona\u2014elusive magnetic waves that scientists have been searching for since the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-025-02690-9\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Astronomy<\/i>,<\/a> was made using unprecedented observations from the world\u2019s most powerful solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could finally explain one of the sun\u2019s greatest mysteries\u2014how its outer atmosphere, the corona, reaches temperatures of millions of degrees while its surface is only around 5,500\u00b0C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfv\u00e9n waves in the sun\u2019s corona\u2014elusive magnetic waves that scientists have been searching for since the 1940s. The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, was made using unprecedented observations from the world\u2019s most powerful solar telescope, the U.S. National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224001","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=224001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}