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Solar Dynamo
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A dynamo is a mechanism for a star or planet to create magnetic field. One type of solar dynamo is turbulent convection, which researchers have simulated on a supercomputer. Like soup boiling on a stove, gas at the Sun's surface is heated from the bottom and cooled at the top. Since the gas conducts electricity, these motions produce magnetic fields.
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An animation of turbulent convection on the surface of the Sun, where brighter colors trace rising hot regions and darker colors trace sinking cool regions
Duration: 41.0 seconds
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| Animation Number: | 550 |
| Animator: | Fausto Cattaneo (Lead) |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 1999-01-21 |
| Scientists: | Fausto Cattaneo (University of Chicago) |
| | Anshu Dubey (University of Chicago) |
| Series: | Images of Earth and Space |
| Video: | SVS1999-0001 * |
Keywords:
SVS
>> Dynamo
DLESE
>> Space science
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Please give credit for this visualization to
Fausto Cattaneo, University of Chicago |
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