This drawing of a lengthwise cut through Jupiter’s magnetotail shows the plasma disk near Jupiter and large plasma bubbles, or “plasmoids,” (colored) moving down the tail. The white arrows represent magnetic field lines, and Jupiter is the tiny dot inside the orange region, from which the lines are emerging. Credit: Science

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