Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to provide close-up views of the Sun’s polar regions, and addresses a central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system?
Scientists have long questioned why the bursts of hot gas from the Sun do not cool down as fast as expected, and have now used a supercomputer to find out.
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