The magazine MAQ December 2019 January 2020 | страница 160

In the fourth point the Solar Probe has identified the area, a few tens of millions of kilometers from the star, in which the solar wind stabilizes and flows radially as we see it coming from Earth . Since the Sun and the crown above it rotate, the solar wind must also initially follow this rotary movement. Movement that results much faster than expected, going to question the knowledge on the mechanisms of energy loss - and therefore of aging - of stars in general.

This video, which spans Nov. 6-10, 2018, combines views from both WISPR telescopes during Parker Solar Probe's first solar encounter. The Sun is out of frame past the combined image's left side, so the solar wind flows from left to right past the view of the telescopes. The bright structure near the center of the left edge is what's known as a streamer — a relatively dense, slow flow of solar wind coming from the Sun — originating from near the Sun's equator.