"No one had monitored what the Sun's corona was doing in UV at this height for that amount of time. Interactions within these structures release stored magnetic energy propelling particles into space.
What Seaton and his colleagues saw were elongated, web-like plasma structures in the Sun's middle corona. To find new ways to observe the Sun's corona, Seaton suggested pointing a different instrument, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) on NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), at either side of the Sun instead of directly at it and making UV observations for a month. While we have a basic understanding of processes, we haven't had observations like these before, so we had to work with a gap in information." "The origins of the solar wind itself and its structure remain somewhat mysterious. Dan Seaton, one of the authors of the study. As the solar wind evolves, it can drive space weather and affect things like power grids, satellites and astronauts," said SwRI Principal Scientist Dr. "We've known since the 1950s about the outflow of the solar wind. But LASCO has a gap in observations that obscures our view of the middle solar corona, where the solar wind originates. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has observed the Sun's corona with the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) stationed aboard the NASA and European Space Agency Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft to monitor space weather that could affect the Earth.
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