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- The plasma in the sun, therefore, sets up a complicated system of cause and effect in which plasma flows inside the sun – churned up by the enormous heat produced by nuclear fusion at the center of the sun – create the sun’s magnetic fields.
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May 22, 2024 · For many years, scientists have searched for the source of the Sun’s magnetism. It’s possible they’ve been looking in the wrong place. A new study suggests that the solar dynamo, the process which generates the Sun’s magnetic field, lies about 32,000 kilometres beneath its surface.
Jan 29, 2016 · The sun is made of plasma, a gas-like state of matter in which electrons and ions have separated, creating a super-hot mix of charged particles. When charged particles move, they naturally create magnetic fields, which in turn have an additional effect on how the particles move.
Sep 20, 2013 · Electric currents inside the sun generate a magnetic field that spreads throughout the solar system. The field causes activity at the surface of the sun, surging and ebbing in a regular...
May 22, 2024 · The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s field is generated deep within the star. But an MIT study finds that the sun’s activity may be shaped by a much shallower process.
May 22, 2024 · Since first observing the sun’s magnetic activity, astronomers have struggled to pinpoint where the process originates. Now, after running a series of complex calculations on a NASA supercomputer, the researchers discovered the magnetic field is generated about 20,000 miles below the sun’s surface.
Since the solar magnetic field was first discovered in 1908, we've struggled to understand where in the Sun it is generated, a region known as the dynamo. Now, new research led by mathematician Geoffrey Vasil of the University of Edinburgh has found that the solar dynamo does not reside deep in the Sun, as previously thought, but quite close to ...
May 22, 2024 · The researchers say the new simulation is unique in that it accounts for the Sun’s remarkably skewed magnetic field, which features a cyclical pattern of plasma flows inside and around the...
