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Magnetic Reconnection Throughout the Universe (Infographic)

infographic depicting magnetic reconnection processes
Magnetic fields go in, energy comes out. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of nature that happens all across our universe — such as the places shown on this infographic.

Magnetic fields go in, energy comes out. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of nature that happens all across our universe — such as the places shown on this infographic. NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission studies magnetic reconnection near Earth so we can understand it everywhere.


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Credit: NASA/Goddard/Hrybyk-Keith