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Source of hazardous high-energy particles located in the Sun – EurekAlert

In the new study, published in Science Advances, researchers analysed the composition of solar energetic particles heading towards Earth, and found they had the…

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IMAGE: A coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting into space on 31 August, 2012. Pictured here is a blended version of the 171 and 304 angstrom wavelengths taken from the Solar…
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Credit: Source: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been located for the first time by researchers at UCL and George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
These particles…

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