Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered

Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of fusion researchers. NASA will be able to test the theory later this decade when it sends a new probe into the Sun for a closer look.

Image: An artist's concept of the Wind spacecraft sampling the solar wind.

More at http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08mar_solarwind/