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Related: About this forumAstronomers Are Stumped by New High-Frequency Wave on the Surface of the Sun
Jennifer Leman - 7h ago
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre, new high-frequency wave on the surface of the sun.
These acoustic waves, which astronomers spotted within a dataset spanning 25 years of observations by both space and ground-based observatories, travel three times faster than predicted by current theory. On top of that, the waves also form vortices that swirl in the opposite direction of the suns rotation.
A team of researchers from New York University, New York University Abu Dhabis Center for Space Science, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, described the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) waves in a paper published March 24 to the journal Nature Astronomy.
Other types of waves are driven, in part, by magnetism, gravity, or convection, but that doesnt seem to be the case with these newly discovered acoustic waves. Something else is powering them. (Curiously, similar high frequency waves have been observed in the ocean, the researchers explain, and atmospheric scientists have not yet uncovered their origins either.)
If the HFR waves could be attributed to any of these three processes [gravity, magnetism, and convection], then the finding would have answered some open questions we still have about the Sun, Chris S. Hanson, a research associate at New York University Abu Dhabis Center for Space Science said in a press statement. However, these new waves dont appear to be a result of these processes, and thats exciting because it leads to a whole new set of questions.
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Astronomers Are Stumped by New High-Frequency Wave on the Surface of the Sun (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2022
OP
I think Bitcoin is tapping solar power for their server farms to mine coin...
Wounded Bear
Mar 2022
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old as dirt
(1,972 posts)1. Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)2. I think Bitcoin is tapping solar power for their server farms to mine coin...
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)5. It's the fukkin' Romulans.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,851 posts)3. How totally fascinating.
And thank you, Judi Lynn for your constant and ever ongoing posts in science.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)4. So, do they know if this represents danger to earth?
NQAS
(10,749 posts)6. All of those words...
Were in English. Yet, taken in its entirety it was completely incomprehensible. Waves. Sun. Mystery. Thats about it.
I read that NASA is making a big announcement tomorrow. If it isnt about aliens Im pretty sure I dont understand that either.
Easterncedar
(2,296 posts)7. Thanks, Judi Lynn
. Your posts are always engaging and enlightening, sometimes like this one, mind blowing. I often dont understand, but I do love trying. Even at 3 in the morning.