Magnetic Field Around a Sunspot
November 27, 2012
Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on Nov. 20, 2006, this image reveals the structure of the solar magnetic field rising vertically from a sunspot, an area of strong magnetic field, outward into the solar atmosphere. At the edges of the sunspot the field lines bend over to reconnect with field of opposite polarity.
Image credit: Hinode JAXA/NASA
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Environment, Technology Internet, Sun, Astronomy, Physics, light sources, Hinode, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japanese space program, Magnetic field, Vortices, Sunspot, Space plasmas, Plasma physics
