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Solar probe snaps closest ever pictures of the Sun, revealing ‘campfires’ on the surface – ABC News
A solar probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency delivers the closest photos ever taken of the Sun’s surface, revealing tiny explosions on the surface called nanoflares.
A solar probe built by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA has delivered the closest photos ever taken of the Sun’s surface, revealing a landscape rife with thousands of tiny solar flares that scientists have dubbed “campfires”, offering clues about the extreme heat of the outermost part of its atmosphere.
- Researchers had to come up with new vocabulary for tiny flare-ups on the Sun, calling them “campfires”
- The primary mission of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is to examine t…
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