Measuring Solar Magnetic Fields
January 19, 2012
This movie shows how magnetic fields evolved on the surface of the sun at an active region in February of 2011. The blue arrows show where magnetic fields rise up off the surface and the red arrows show the magnetic field lines returning to the surface. credit: NASA
Topics:
Environment, Technology Internet, Magnetism, Electromagnetism, Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earth's magnetic field, Field line, Magnet, Sun, Stellar magnetic field, Magnetostatics, Magnetic field, Space plasmas, Plasma physics
