Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales
August 22, 2025
August 22, 2025
PASADENA, California, Aug. 22 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales
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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 outer . . .
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Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales
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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 outer . . .