Dark Fireworks on the Sun
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:53 pm
Amazing video:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunea ... works.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunea ... works.html
Yes, it was the most amazing part of it. Especially if you consider that the plasma filament in the video could contain the earth several hundred times.....DavidWillard wrote:Giorgio wrote:Amazing video:
I concur! It's truly interesting on the estimated amount of material ejected and returned to the surface. Did you notice as some of the material was pulled into the magnetic loops toward the surface that they lit up like the temperature of the exploding spot to begin with? Also that the area where the material was being drawn into was cooler? I guess as the flare material constricts in the field lines, its temp shoots up and smacked the cool surface areas just as much. Neat!