Magnetic reconnection is a physical process in highly conducting plasmas in which the magnetic topology is rearranged and magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy, thermal energy, and particle a
cceleration
The source of many of the energetic events on the sun and in the magnetosphere, from solar flares and coronal mass ejections to the aurora. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic field lines cross
,ak apart, and then reconnect in a new alignment, rebounding explosively into new positions, providing huge amounts of energy.