Topic

Solar Physics

The study of the Sun's interior, surface and atmosphere, including plasma motions, magnetic fields and the mechanisms that drive solar activity.

Current clusters

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Feeding the young Sun a super-Earth squares its helioseismology with its missing lithium

In MNRAS, Ege University's Mutlu Yildiz reports solar models that swallow a planet of five to 10 Earth masses matching interior structure and low surface lithium in the same run, a fit that needs an independent detection before it means much.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence54

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DKIST resolves Kelvin-Helmholtz swirls across the Sun's photosphere

The instability that ruffles estuaries and Jupiter's cloud decks has now been imaged in the Sun's own plasma. The matched simulations backing that reading leave the energy question it was invoked to answer still open.

Publishers:eos.org

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption32
Hype gap+12
Incentives45
Confidence57