Overview
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured the first-ever footage of turbulent crescents of plasma within a coronal mass ejection.
- The footage reveals Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a phenomenon previously unobserved in visible light within the solar atmosphere.
- This discovery could enhance our understanding of coronal mass ejections and their impact on space weather around Earth.
- The probe's unique orbit and the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument made these observations possible.
- Further investigations by the probe are expected to provide more insights into the Sun's behavior and help predict solar storms.