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Scientists have captured the full lifecycle of a putative nanoflare – Tech Explorist
A new study marks the first time researchers have captured the full lifecycle of a putative nanoflare – from bright origins to blistering demise.
A billion times less energetic than ordinary flares, nanoflares have a power that belies their name. A typical ‘nanoflare’ has the same energy as 240 megatons of TNT.
Nanoflares, tiny eruptions on the Sun- are one-billionth the size of normal solar flares. First predicted in 1972 by Eugene Parker, nanoflares are expected to help solve a major puzzle: the coronal heating problem.
How Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, gets so incredibly hot?
This question remains unsolved even after a half-century…
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