It was discovered that a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection also takes place outside the Earth's magnetosphere.
The magnetic reconnection occurs when the lines of a magnetic field cross and break, releasing at that moment large amounts of energy that is transmitted to the particles that surround them, is the phenomenon responsible for the existence of auroras, but until now we thought that this phenomenon only occurred within the terrestrial magnetosphere; but what has been discovered is that the reconnection also occurs in a region that is just outside the outer limit of the magnetosphere where the solar wind in the form of plasma is extremely turbulent,
we thought that the reconnection could not happen there, since the plasma is very chaotic in that region, but it seems that although in a different way the standard magnetic reconnection that we knew until now, took place in areas that covered thousands of kilometers. nor at five kilometers due to the turbidity present in that area are measuring reconnections we already know a little more about how the magnetic fields work our star our planet and about how to protect the future interplanetary astronauts