{"id":54094,"date":"2025-07-09T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=54094"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:59:22","slug":"miniature-plasma-loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/miniature-plasma-loops\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Plasma Loops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Miniature Plasma Loops Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), and their collaborators used high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy to catch miniature plasma loops elusive structures in action.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Miniature Plasma Loops<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These miniature loops are about <\/span><b>3,000\u20134,000 kilometers long<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and have a width of less than 100 kilometers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are so <\/span><b>small and short-lived<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that they have stayed hidden until now.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They hold clues to one of the <\/span><b>Sun\u2019s deepest mysteries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211;how it stores and <\/span><b>unleashes magnetic energy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They offer a new window into how <\/span><b>magnetic energy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is stored and released in the solar atmosphere on small scales.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the most intriguing features of the Sun\u2019s outer layer are coronal loops, arc-like beautiful structures of hot plasma that glow at a temperature over a million degrees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While these large loops in the solar corona, or outer atmosphere, have long been studied, scientists are now also paying attention to miniature counterparts of these loops.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes them challenging to study, as they stay hidden in the lower layers of the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere and are mostly unresolved by earlier telescopes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2142911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miniature Plasma Loops are extremely small and short-lived solar phenomena that remained undetected until recent advanced observations revealed their existence. Read more about Miniature Plasma Loops, Meaning, Length, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":54087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1425],"class_list":{"0":"post-54094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-miniature-plasma-loops","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}