The magazine MAQ December 2019 January 2020 | Page 152

Parker Solar Probe observed switchbacks, which are traveling disturbances in the solar wind that caused the magnetic field to bend back on itself, an as-yet unexplained phenomenon that might help scientists uncover more information about how the solar wind is accelerated from the Sun.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez