{"id":80785,"date":"2018-07-20T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/scientists-discover-structure-within-the-suns-atmosphere"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:02:24","slug":"scientists-discover-structure-within-the-suns-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/scientists-discover-structure-within-the-suns-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover structure within the Sun\u2019s atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hknjlxWTGMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun\u2019s mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/06\/nasa-sun-probe-heat-resistant-shield\/\">Parker Solar Probe<\/a>, which will make contact with the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, however, scientists are foreshadowing what the spacecraft might see with new discoveries. In a paper published this week in <em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em>, scientists detected structures within the Sun\u2019s corona, thanks to advanced image processing techniques and algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>The question that this group of scientists, led by Craig DeForest from the Southwest Research Institute\u2019s branch in Boulder, Colorado, was trying to answer was in regard to the source of solar wind. \u201cIn deep space, the solar wind is turbulent and gusty,\u201d said DeForest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2018\/discovering-structure-in-the-outer-corona\">in a release<\/a>. \u201cBut how did it get that way? Did it leave the Sun smooth, and become turbulent as it crossed the solar system, or are the gusts telling us about the Sun itself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/20\/sun-corona-structure-algorithms-nasa-stereo-a\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/20\/sun-corona-structure-alg...-stereo-a\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun\u2019s mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will make contact with the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, however, scientists are foreshadowing what the spacecraft might see with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80785","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}