National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun-Earth Day 2010: Magnetic Storms
IMAGE GALLERY
An artist's concept of the heliosphere, a magnetic bubble that partially protects the solar system from cosmic rays. Read more at: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/ray_surge.html
Credit: Richard Mewaldt/Caltech
NASA Fact
Depending on your rate and direction of motion, a pure magnetic field can be turned into an electric field and vice versa.