Magnetic Fields around the Sun (IMAGE)

Queen's University Belfast

Magnetic Fields around the Sun

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Left: An image of our sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, showing million degree plasma being channeled into loop-like shapes by the immense magnetic fields. Right: A zoom-in of the highly magnetic region of the sun's corona studied by Dr. David Jess and colleagues from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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