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Touching the Heart of Magnetism in Our Nearest Star

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Tonight’s event at the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West at 79th) is part of the International Year of Astronomy, and focuses on our nearest star. Know what it is? If you guessed the Sun, you got it. The Sun has intense magnetic fields that erupt through its surface, forming sunspot pairs and magnificent magnetic loops high in its atmosphere. Recent technological advances in supercomputing allow us to study these magnetic fields, and helioseismology has provided important clues by probing flows over a range of depths in the Sun. Come see Juri Toomri discuss these advances that have given us such insight into the complex but beautiful operation of solar magnetism.