Helioseismic data traces the solar dynamo to the tachocline about 200,000 km down.
Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...
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Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic ...
The Sun’s extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades. One explanation is ...
Most planets have a magnetic field, like Earth, but with different strength or structure. It shields the planet from the energetic particles of the solar wind. The origin of the magnetic field is ...