--- title: See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields description: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which studies the sun's influence on the Earth, captured extreme ultraviolet wavelengths canonical: https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T21:33:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:44:48.523Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields og:description: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which studies the sun's influence on the Earth, captured extreme ultraviolet wavelengths invisible to human eyes og:url: https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b5fa6a6cce7fc89/698871c32dce01ac2d9e691e/loop_wave171.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: loop_wave171 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields twitter:description: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which studies the sun's influence on the Earth, captured extreme ultraviolet wavelengths invisible to human eyes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b5fa6a6cce7fc89/698871c32dce01ac2d9e691e/loop_wave171.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 18, 2015 9:33 PM UTC  NASA/SDO by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 18, 2015 9:33 PM UTC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/"},"headline":"See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields","datePublished":"2015-11-18T21:33:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:44:48.523Z","description":"NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which studies the sun's influence on the Earth, captured extreme ultraviolet wavelengths invisible to human eyes. The particles spin along the magnetic field, tracing out bright lines","url":"https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b5fa6a6cce7fc89/698871c32dce01ac2d9e691e/loop_wave171.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b5fa6a6cce7fc89/698871c32dce01ac2d9e691e/loop_wave171.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"loop_wave171","caption":"","creditText":"NASA/SDO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4119070/sun-magnetic-fields/","name":"See the Sun's Glowing Magnetic Fields"}}]}] ```