al European scientists have confirmed an Alabama astrophysicist was right two years ago with his models of strange spikes in the solar wind, the stream of protons and electrons coming from the Sun’s outmost “atmosphere” or corona.
Dr. Gary Zank of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and his team came up with the explanation for the spikes – or kinks – in solar emissions in 2020, and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has now “seen” them. The phenomenon is called a “solar switchback” and this is the first time it has been directly observed…
