India, April 29 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
An international team of solar physicists have traced giant tides of plasma beneath the Sun's surface at a region called near-surface shear layer (NSSL). The plasma currents shift with the Sun's magnetic heartbeat and could have far-reaching influence on space weather and Earth.
The near-surface shear layer (NSSL) extending to about 35,000 km in depth is a critical region beneath the Sun's surface. It is marked by distinct rotational behaviours that vary with depth and by changes, over space and time, that relate to active region magnetic fields and the solar cycle.
A study led by astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous instit...