{"id":224300,"date":"2025-10-31T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-suns-fiery-secret-waves-discovered-after-80-years-of-searching"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:26:20","slug":"the-suns-fiery-secret-waves-discovered-after-80-years-of-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-suns-fiery-secret-waves-discovered-after-80-years-of-searching","title":{"rendered":"The Sun\u2019s Fiery Secret Waves Discovered After 80 Years of Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-suns-fiery-secret-waves-discovered-after-80-years-of-searching.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have finally observed long-sought twisting magnetic waves, known as torsional Alfv\u00e9n waves, in the Sun\u2019s corona\u2014ending an eight-decade search that began in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>Using the powerful Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, researchers captured the first direct evidence of these small, constant waves, which may be responsible for heating the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere to millions of degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden Solar Magnetic Waves Revealed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have finally observed long-sought twisting magnetic waves, known as torsional Alfv\u00e9n waves, in the Sun\u2019s corona\u2014ending an eight-decade search that began in the 1940s. Using the powerful Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, researchers captured the first direct evidence of these small, constant waves, which may be responsible for heating the Sun\u2019s outer [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224300","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=224300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}