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    New insights into an enigmatic form of magnetic reconnection

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    In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts magnetic energy to both thermal energy, or heat, and kinetic energy, or the acceleration of particles, creating jets of electrons and ions. Magnetic reconnection plays a key role in many outer space events such as solar flares and auroras, as well as in laboratory methods related to nuclear fusion.
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