What Exactly Causes Solar Winds?

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There has been a lot of news lately about the Sun, specifically with regards to the increasing number of large solar winds being released. Now, after data from the Parker Solar Probe has now been analyzed, we might finally know why the Sun lets out these extreme particle-heavy winds.

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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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