{"id":308195,"date":"2024-08-23T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=308195"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:30:34","slug":"study-of-solar-magnetic-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/study-of-solar-magnetic-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Study of Solar Magnetic Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> This post on <strong>Study of Solar Magnetic Fields<\/strong> has been created based on the article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/96315\/OPS\/G0BD7VVA6.1+GT1D811BN.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IIA finds a novel way to explore the sun\u2019s secrets by studying solar magnetic fields<\/a>&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 23rd August 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p>Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found a new way to probe deeper into the sun\u2019s secrets by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">studying the solar magnetic fields at different layers<\/span> of the solar atmosphere. The study is being done by the IIA\u2019s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kodaikanal Tower Tunnel Telescope<\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_308196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308196\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Solar-Magnetic-Field.png?resize=321%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solar Magnetic Field\" width=\"321\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Solar-Magnetic-Field.png?w=321&amp;ssl=1 321w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Solar-Magnetic-Field.png?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What is the study about<\/h2>\n<p>The study is focussed on finding the physical mechanisms behind the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">coronal Heating Problem<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">solar winds<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coronal Heating-<\/strong> The &#8216;coronal heating problem&#8217; refers to the fact that the photosphere (a deeper layer of the Sun) is at a much lower temperature than the corona (outer layer of the Sun).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mechanism Behind Coronal heating according to the study-<\/strong> The solar atmosphere is composed of various layers interconnected through magnetic fields. The magnetic field acts as a conduit to transfer energy and mass from the inner layers to the outer layers. This leads to problem of coronal heating and primarily drive solar wind.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kodaikanal Solar Observatory<\/h2>\n<p>It is a solar observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located in Kodaikanal in the Palani hills of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, KoSO had telescopes to study sunspots, prominences, and solar radiation. Now, it has advanced instruments like the\u00a0H-alpha telescope\u00a0and\u00a0the White Light Active Region Monitor (WARM) for high solar imaging.<\/p>\n<p>Read More- <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/125-years-of-kodaikanal-solar-observatory\/#:~:text=About%E2%80%93%20It%20is%20a%20solar,in%20Kodaikanal%20in%20August%201893.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">125 years of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus- Science and Tecnology<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- This post on Study of Solar Magnetic Fields has been created based on the article &#8220;IIA finds a novel way to explore the sun\u2019s secrets by studying solar magnetic fields&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 23rd August 2024. Why in News? Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found a new way&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/study-of-solar-magnetic-fields\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study of Solar Magnetic Fields<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-308195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}