Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchbacks

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft flew through an S-shaped kink, or 'switchback', in the solar wind's magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the switchback, it traced the feature's origin back to the Sun's surface and revealed more about solar magnetism, described as the unruly instigator of dangerous solar storms.

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