(Animation) Solar Magnetic Field Lines (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

(Animation) Solar Magnetic Field Lines

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Closed magnetic field lines loop back to the Sun to form helmet streamers, surrounded by open field lines that reach out into space, as depicted in this illustration. Download this animation: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sunloop1.gif

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Lisa Poje/Genna Duberstein

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