{"id":3927737,"date":"2026-08-31T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-orbiter-detects-ion-sorting-at-the-solar-winds-magnetic-boundary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:03:30","slug":"solar-orbiter-detects-ion-sorting-at-the-solar-winds-magnetic-boundary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-orbiter-detects-ion-sorting-at-the-solar-winds-magnetic-boundary\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar orbiter detects ion sorting at the solar wind&#8217;s magnetic boundary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study of data from the European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA) Solar Orbiter gives the most detailed view of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) to date. The HCS is a sprawling, undulating surface emanating from the sun to beyond the solar system that serves as the boundary between the sun&#8217;s north and south magnetic field hemispheres.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-solar-orbiter-ion-magnetic-boundary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study of data from the European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA) Solar Orbiter gives the most detailed view of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) to date. The HCS is a sprawling, undulating surface emanating from the sun to beyond the solar system that serves as the boundary between the sun&#8217;s north and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}