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New Method Makes Magnetic Maps of the Solar Corona (1 of 2)

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New Method Makes Magnetic Maps of the Solar Corona (1 of 2)

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Global map of the coronal magnetic field strength over plotted on an image of the Sun taken by the AIA instrument on the SDO spacecraft. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 7 Aug., issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Yang at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Global maps of the magnetic field in the solar corona."

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Credit: <p>Z.-H. Yang <em>et al., Science</em> (2020)</p>


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