Physicists Measured The Central Engine That Powers Solar Flares For The First Time – ScienceAlert

The Sun is a wild place. Up in our skies, it appears pretty much the same day to day, but when you look closer, our star is often riotous with turbulent plasma.
One of the wildest things the Sun can do is flare – belch out colossal loops of plasma that utterly dwarf our entire Earth in scale. Although this activity is quite common, we still don’t fully understand what drives it.
Now, for the first time, solar physicists have measured and characterised the magnetic field of the gargantuan curre…

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