Global coronal magnetic field (IMAGE)

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Global coronal magnetic field

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Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the Sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured at different time overlapped on top of it.

 

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Image courtesy of Zihao Yang.

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