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Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World

Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World

IMAGE GALLERY

The solar surface is like a magnetic carpet with small fields reconnecting to make larger ones (Courtesy - SOHO)

This image appears in the Technology Through Time article, #60: "Where does the Sun's magnetic field come from?".

Space Weather Fact

Toy 'rare-earth' magnets can be 5 times stronger that a sunspot magnetic field.

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