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  • How Greenbelt-based NASA scientists just “filmed” the Sun’s magnetic chaos

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📰 News we're reading

• NASA's Parker Probe Captures the Sun's Hidden Magnetic Forces on Video for the First Time (dailygalaxy.com) — NASA scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt are helping unveil the Sun’s hidden magnetic forces using new video from the Parker Solar Probe. The footage lets researchers actually see magnetic switchbacks in the solar atmosphere, a breakthrough that could sharpen forecasts of solar storms affecting satellites, communications, and power systems on Earth.
   

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