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Robert Lea

New technique could probe the heart of powerful solar storms

a view of the active orange sun firing off a powerful solar flare.

Scientists may have found a way to investigate the curious processes that accelerate solar particles to tremendous speeds.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — huge eruptions of superheated plasma — are two of the most energetic processes seen in the solar system. 

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