Unraveling a long-standing solar mystery: The extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer
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Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions of high-energy particles and radiation from the sun known as "space weather."
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