A portal is an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown.
It turns out that hidden portals do exist in Earth’s magnetic field creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away! Wow!
Scientists call them X-points or electron diffusion regions. They’re places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun.
A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth:
These gateways link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun, setting the stage for stormy space weather!