00:00there's been a lot of news lately about the sun specifically with regards to the increasing number
00:08of large solar winds being released now after data from the parker solar probe has been analyzed we
00:13might finally know why the sun lets out these extreme particle heavy winds the probe actually
00:17gathered the data back in 2021 flying within 5.3 million miles of the solar surface because of
00:23that proximity it was able to detect the structure of solar winds as they gather up solar particles
00:28on their way out into space with the researchers discovering that not only do these gusts occur
00:32quite rapidly but it also points to the cause as being the snapping and reconnecting of the sun's
00:37magnetic field lines creating a sort of magnetic funnel structure into and away from the sun with
00:42the researchers adding quote the big conclusion is that it's magnetic reconnection within these
00:46funnel structures that's providing the energy source of the fast solar wind when this happens
00:51it produces cooler areas on the sun's surface often referred to as sunspots but while they are cooler
00:56it doesn't make them less energetic in fact those broken magnetic field lines allow the cosmic winds
01:00to make their solar exodus with some of the resulting solar winds traveling at speeds upwards of 500 miles
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