Axions Streaming out from the Sun (IMAGE)

University of Leicester

Axions Streaming out from the Sun

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A sketch (not to scale) shows axions (blue) streaming out from the Sun, converting in the Earth's magnetic field (red) into X-rays (orange), which are then detected by the XMM-Newton observatory.

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