National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale,or MMS, mission studies magnetic reconnectionnear Earth so we can understand it everywhere.
Magnetic fields go in, energy comes out. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of nature that happens all across our universe.
MAGNETICRECONNECTION
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NEAR EARTH
It creates disturbancesin near-Earth space,leading to…
AURORAS
At the heliopause
It sends interstellarmatter across oursolar system’smagnetic boundary…
HELIOPAUSE
NEAR BLACK HOLES
It heats nearby gasto extraordinarytemperatures...
BLACK HOLE
ON THE SUN
Magnetic reconnectionsets off solarexplosions,such as...
CORONALMASS
EJECTIONS SOLARFLARES
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