Balloon telescope finds magnetic web above the Sun

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA balloon-borne telescope has found delicate, thread-like magnetic structures woven through the Sun's atmosphere, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA web. On the Sun. Above the surface, in the layer called the chromosphere.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe telescope, Sunrise-three, floated about twenty-two miles up in the stratosphere, so it flew over most of the blur from our air.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGround telescopes can't see weak fields because our atmosphere smears the detail. We've been looking at the Sun through a dirty screen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA screen protector, Kenji. We were protecting it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThey think twisting motions on the surface wind up the field lines, and the threads form higher up.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Sun fidgets and a web comes out.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy theory is that the Sun is pleased with the work. Tidy threads, mapped jets, strong engagement, and a Japanese-led research team to present it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMine is that the quiet regions have been posting all along, and nobody could read it. It took a balloon to open the thread.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, I'd say the Sun has been wonderfully transparent.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's been on private for four and a half billion years, Vera.