The Sun Is A Magnet!
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Our sun is more than a nuclear fusion factory and the source of energy for all life on Earth. It's also a really big magnet. In the sun's super-hot center, atoms are stripped of their electrons and boil to the surface along charged convection currents as wide as Texas. Moving charged particles, whether they're through a wire, or along solar plasma highways, create magnetic fields. As the sun rotates, these magnetic fields are tangled into knots that eventually pierce the surface of the sun . . . now the real show begins. Massive loops connect this mishmash of magnetic eddys, acting as conduits for million-degree currents of plasma, glowing in ultraviolet, and only visible to special satellites. The material flowing through a coronal loop carries enough energy to power Earth...
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Our sun is more than a nuclear fusion factory and the source of energy for all life on Earth. It's also a really big magnet. In the sun's super-hot center, atoms are stripped of their electrons and boil to the surface along charged convection currents as wide as Texas. Moving charged particles, whether they're through a wire, or along solar plasma highways, create magnetic fields. As the sun rotates, these magnetic fields are tangled into knots that eventually pierce the surface of the sun . . . now the real show begins. Massive loops connect this mishmash of magnetic eddys, acting as conduits for million-degree currents of plasma, glowing in ultraviolet, and only visible to special satellites. The material flowing through a coronal loop carries enough energy to power Earth...
