Scientists discover the possible origin of the sun's magnetic field, and it's not where they thought it was

Faint loops of plasma on the sun.

Scientists have found the possible origins of the sun's magnetic field, and it's not where they thought it was.

The discovery, made using complex computer simulations, suggests that the sun's magnetic field arises from instabilities in the plasma across the outermost layers of the solar surface, rather than from deep within the star as researchers previously thought.