NASA scientists unveil 60-year-old mystery about solar flares, explosions on Sun

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The team at NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) has a new theory that explains how the most explosive type of magnetic reconnection occurs.

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NASA scientists have devised a theory that explains how solar explosions happen and can help anticipate geomagnetic storms and solar flares that can affect Earth.

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Solar flares are caused by an explosive process called magnetic reconnection, which can release enough energy to power the entire earth for 20,000 years in just minutes

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Scientists have been trying to figure out how this process works for the past half-century.

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The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) team at NASA has developed a novel theory that explains how the most explosive type of magnetic reconnection

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known as fast reconnection, occurs and why it occurs at a consistent rate.

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Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon that takes place in plasma, which is a highly energetic, fluid-like material that is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields.

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Plasmas across the universe undergo magnetic reconnection, which rapidly converts magnetic energy into heat and acceleration, from flares on the Sun to near-Earth space to black holes

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The new study, which was published in Nature's Communications Physics magazine, revealed how fast reconnection happens in collisionless plasmas

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which are plasmas with particles that are spaced out enough that they don't clash with one another.

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