Sun Image with Model of Magnetic Field Lines (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Sun Image with Model of Magnetic Field Lines

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This image of the sun from Jan. 7, 2014, combines a picture of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, with a model of the magnetic field lines using data that is also from SDO. A new model based on such data may one day help space weather forecasters better predict how eruptions from the sun will behave at Earth.

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Credits: NASA/SDO/LMSAL

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