Monday, March 26, 2007

NASA tells more about SUN,S magnatic feilds

NASA released Wednesday never-before-seen images from an international spacecraft showing that the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously thought. Hinode, from the Japanese word for sunrise, was launched in September 2006 to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft's uninterrupted high-resolution observations of the sun will have an impact on solar physics comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy.

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