Solar physicist Steven Cranmer of the University of Colorado Boulder, who has made simulations of magnetic reconnection in the outer corona, finds the results exciting. (sciencenews.org)
DeForest and colleagues collected data for three days with STEREO in 2014 to gain more detail about small - scale changes in the outer corona than previously obtained. (sciencenews.org)
Surprisingly, the team found that the outer corona is full of moving blobs and fine streams of plasma that vary in density by a factor of 10, suggesting that the magnetic field lines there are moving and merging more than scientists thought. (sciencenews.org)