The observatory cost a whopping 900 million yuan (U.S. $126 million) and has been a long time coming. Chinese scientists first suggested such a mission in the 1970s, Weiqun Gan, an astrophysicist at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, and the mission's chief scientist, told Nature magazine. 'We always wanted to do something like this,' he added.Today, it is common knowledge that the Sun's magnetic field causes its energetic emissions but the relationship between the two remains a mystery.

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