Questions To Ponder
The picture above shows how the solar wind ejected from the Sun reveals a vast global magnetic field. Since the Sun is thought to have been formed from matter with roughly equal amounts of positive and negative electric charge, it is not obvious how an approximately neutral body could generate such a large and coherent magnetic field. Presumably there is large-scale charge separation and electric currents within the Sun that generate the global dipole field and other components of the Sun’s magnetic field.
A more enigmatic question is why the Sun’s global magnetic field flips roughly every 11 years, switching the the north and south magnetic poles, and then flips back roughly 11 years later. This has been an major enigma for a very long time. Discrete Scale Relativity has a decidedly unorthodox explanation for what is causing this flipping. For a brief summary go to http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw and choose #11 from the New Developments page.