{"id":3924957,"date":"2026-03-17T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-trace-the-suns-magnetic-engine-200000-kilometers-below-its-surface\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:02:36","slug":"physicists-trace-the-suns-magnetic-engine-200000-kilometers-below-its-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-trace-the-suns-magnetic-engine-200000-kilometers-below-its-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists trace the sun&#8217;s magnetic engine, 200,000 kilometers below its surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Every eleven years, the sun&#8217;s magnetic field flips. Sunspots\u2014dark, cooler regions on the sun&#8217;s surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions\u2014appear at mid-latitudes and migrate toward the star&#8217;s equator in a butterfly-shape pattern before fading as the cycle resets. While this spectacle on the star&#8217;s surface has long been visible to astronomers, where this powerful cycle begins inside the star has remained hidden until now.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-physicists-sun-magnetic-kilometers-surface.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every eleven years, the sun&#8217;s magnetic field flips. Sunspots\u2014dark, cooler regions on the sun&#8217;s surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions\u2014appear at mid-latitudes and migrate toward the star&#8217;s equator in a butterfly-shape pattern before fading as the cycle resets. While this spectacle on the star&#8217;s surface has long been visible to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}