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Sun’s solar switchback mystery solved, courtesy this tech marvel

European Solar Orbiter, has unveiled the mystery of the origin of a solar switchback. The European Solar Orbiter, has solved the mystery of the origin of a magnetic phenomenon called a solar switchback i.e, sudden and large deflections of the solar wind's magnetic field. The findings reveal their physical formation mechanism that might help accelerate the solar wind. The spacecraft provides a full view of the structure, which appears to have an S-shaped character as predicted in the past.The data provided by the orbiter suggest that the rapidly changing magnetic fields can have their origin near the surface of the Sun. The sudden change in the magnetic field around the Sun was first observed in the 1970s by the German-US Hel...