Bringing the Sun Down to Earth
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Bringing the Sun Down to Earth
The sun is often portrayed as a “laboratory for astrophysics” but it is a laboratory over which we have no control. Instead, solar physicists employ a wide range of theoretical, computational, and observational tools to study the magnetically driven activity on the sun. The challenge for these methods is that solar physics is extremely complex, making it difficult to isolate the key drivers of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-2879
DOI: 10.1103/physics.5.90