Solar switchback (animated GIF) (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Solar switchback (animated GIF)

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During its first solar flyby in November 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe observed switchbacks -- sudden reversals in the magnetic field of the solar wind, illustrated here. Newly-observed solar plumelets might produce similar signatures to switchbacks.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

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