ESA - Tiny magnetic episodes may have large consequences on the Sun

What little do we know about the sun! Let's not forget that the sun is the most important factor influencing climate on earth! But the sun is rarely mentioned in this context! Why? Are we supposed to believe that the output of the sun is static, never changing? What if the output of the sun undergoes cyclic or periodic changes perhaps on the scale of decades or centuries? 

All this daily propaganda and demagoguery about the life essential trace gas CO2 in our atmosphere may well turn out to be the greatest medieval superstition every perpetrated by scientists!

The renewable energy/global warming/climate change is the greatest scam perpetrated on humanity of our time. It’s big business and big government!

"... On 3 March 2022, just a few months into Solar Orbiter’s nominal mission, the spacecraft’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) returned data showing for the first time that a magnetic phenomenon called reconnection was taking place persistently on tiny scales. At that time, the spacecraft was about halfway between the Earth and the Sun. This enabled coordinated observations with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) missions. The data from the three missions was then combined during the analysis. Magnetic reconnection occurs when a magnetic field changes itself into a more stable configuration. It is a fundamental energy release mechanism in superheated gasses known as plasmas and is believed to be the major mechanism for powering large-scale solar eruptions. This makes it the direct cause of space weather, and a prime candidate for the mysterious heating of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. ...
The 3 March 2022 event took place over the period of one hour. The temperatures around the point of the magnetic field where the magnetic field intensity drops to zero, known as the null-point, sustained itself at around 10 million °C, and generated an outflow of material that came in the form of discrete ‘blobs’ travelling away from the null point with a speed of around 80 km/s. In addition to this continuous outflow, an explosive episode also took place around this null point, and lasted for four minutes. ..."

From the abstract:

"Magnetic reconnection is a key mechanism involved in solar eruptions and is also a prime possibility to heat the low corona to millions of degrees. Here, we present ultra-high-resolution extreme ultraviolet observations of persistent null-point reconnection in the corona at a scale of about 390 km over one hour observations of the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager on board Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The observations show formation of a null-point configuration above a minor positive polarity embedded within a region of dominant negative polarity near a sunspot. The gentle phase of the persistent null-point reconnection is evidenced by sustained point-like high-temperature plasma (about 10 MK) near the null-point and constant outflow blobs not only along the outer spine but also along the fan surface. The blobs appear at a higher frequency than previously observed with an average velocity of about 80 km s−1 and life-times of about 40 s. The null-point reconnection also occurs explosively but only for 4 minutes, its coupling with a mini-filament eruption generates a spiral jet. These results suggest that magnetic reconnection, at previously unresolved scales, proceeds continually in a gentle and/or explosive way to persistently transfer mass and energy to the overlying corona."

ESA - Tiny magnetic episodes may have large consequences on the Sun

Ultra-high-resolution observations of persistent null-point reconnection in the solar corona (open access)

Fig. 1: Overview of observations