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An SwRI-led study of the Sun confirms decades-old theoretical models about solar magnetic reconnection. Measurements from NASA’s Solar Parker Probe helped fill crucial gaps in the data about processes that drive solar flares, coronal mass ejections and other space weather phenomena. The measurements were taken from the region pictured in the white box, which was identified as the source of a coronal mass ejection. The figures shown here are taken from images captured by the ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission. 