Wild video shows sunny winds that stopped millions of miles from the sun

Here, the pipelines are hospitable particles of sunny wind, a stream of our sun, caught in new footage from the ESA/NASA solar orbiter.

The video was filmed by the Metis tool of Orbiter, a coronary that blocks the light directly from the sun to see greater phenomena in its external atmosphere or crown. New studies describing observations were published Today in the astrophysical journal.

“In this document, we present Metis observations during her perihelion to pass a striking spiral radial structure, which extends from 1.5 to 3 (solar radii) and lasted more than 3 hours,” the team wrote. “To the best of our knowledge, these observations are unique, as it seems that they show directly the prolonged outflow of the solar wind of the alfenic in the heliosphere.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhfzgw8jms

The solar radius is 432 690 miles (696,347 kilometers), so the structure described by the team extends to 1.298,070 miles (2.089,041 kilometers) – this is a pretty big structure!

The video was made by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only tool capable of seeing such subtle features of the solar wind, according to ESA releaseS The solar orbital regularly captures the strangeness of the extreme physics of the sun; Only last month, the spacecraft witnesses (and recorded) Small jets produced near the south pole of the sun.

The solar wind constantly hits the ground, with particles sometimes Starting Aurorae in the sky on our planet. But the unique capabilities of Metis allow researchers to study the solar wind at its source, shedding light not only on the wind, but also on the inner crown of the sun that produces particles.

The current plan is to maintain the solar orbiter to operate until 2026, although the mission can be extended until 2030. We will almost certainly have a more remarkable intimate look at our home star before.