NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Helps Map Sun’s Outer Boundary
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This artist’s concept depicts the boundary of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the Alfvén surface. The area appears to shift between spiky and frothy, and it is the point of no return for material that escapes the Sun’s magnetic grasp. Deep dives through the Alfvén surface using NASA’s Parker Solar Probe combined with solar wind […]