- Generated by electrical currents (moving charged particles)
- Affects the motion of charged particles
- Electrical Conductor: hot ionized hydrogen (acts like a metal)
- Rotation: approximately every 25 to 30 days
- Complex Motion: convection (boiling)
- Solar Minimum: dipolar field
- Time Proceeds: sun rotates differentially, magnetic field lines
- Solar Maximum: magnetic loops once inside the sun now poke
- Time Proceeds: magnetic activity returns to minimum level, and
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