Bands of Magnetized Solar Material (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Bands of Magnetized Solar Material

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Bands of magnetized solar material march toward the sun's equator. The way the bands in each hemisphere interact leads to a 330-day cycle of waxing and waning activity on the sun that can be as strong as the more well-studied 11-year solar cycle.

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S. McIntosh

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