Thanks to new numerical simulations, scientists from CEA, CNRS and Paris Diderot University explain why the Sun's magnetic field reverses every eleven years. The discovery of a law of scale for the period of a star's magnetic cycle is a world first published on July 14, 2017 in Science and provides a better understanding of violent space weather phenomena.
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