Image: Switchbacks on the Sun

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Description: Parker Solar Probe observed switchbacks — traveling disturbances in the solar wind that caused the magnetic field to bend back on itself — an as-yet unexplained phenomenon that might help scientists uncover more information about how the solar wind is accelerated from the Sun.
Title: Switchbacks on the Sun
Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/switchbacks-science-explaining-parker-solar-probe-s-magnetic-puzzle
Author: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
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