Confirmation of a Sighting of Magnetic Reconnection on the Sun (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Confirmation of a Sighting of Magnetic Reconnection on the Sun

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An overlap of data from two NASA spacecraft confirms a sighting of magnetic reconnection on the sun, a process of realigning magnetic fields that lies at the heart of space weather. The teal image, from SDO, shows the shape of magnetic field lines in the sun's atmosphere. The RHESSI data is in orange.

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NASA/SDO/RHESSI/Goddard

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