NJIT Scientists Shed Light on How Solar Flares Accelerate Particles to Nearly the Speed of Light (IMAGE)

New Jersey Institute of Technology

NJIT Scientists Shed Light on How Solar Flares Accelerate Particles to Nearly the Speed of Light

Caption

This image shows the speed of fast plasma outflows produced by the flare. The termination shock is shown as a transition layer where the colors change abruptly from red/yellow to blue/green. At bottom is the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, which captured the termination shock in action using radio observations.

Credit

SDO/AIA data is from NASA. VLA image courtesy of NRAO/AUI. Image prepared by Chen, Jibben, and Samra.

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