PASADENA, California, Aug. 22 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales * Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (PhD '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated plasma. The solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, is much less dense  more