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Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time – Phys.org

An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first time.

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An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first time.
The team, including researchers from Peking University, China and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), U.S., used observations from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP), an instrument that can provide measurements of infrared ra…

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