Strange gamma rays from the sun may help decipher its magnetic fields
The high-energy light is more plentiful and weirder than anyone expected
![photo illustration of sun's magnetic fields](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/082318_lg_solar-gamma-rays_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
A TANGLED SKEIN The sun’s knotted magnetic fields, visualized here as white lines, scramble cosmic rays and may cause them to shoot energetic light called high-energy gamma rays toward Earth.
Solar Dynamics Observatory/GSFC/NASA