An
Active Region of the Sun
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16/06/1998 |
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The
Sun is a busy place. This false-color image depicts an active region near
an edge of the Sun. Hot plasma is seen exploding off the Sun's photosphere
and traveling along loops defined by the Sun's magnetic field. |
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Credit:
A. Title (Stanford Lockheed Institute), TRACE, NASA |
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The
Sun is a busy place. This false-color image depicts an active region near
an edge of the Sun. Hot plasma is seen exploding off the Sun's photosphere
and travelling along loops defined by the Sun's magnetic field. The red
regions are particularly hot, indicating that some magnetic field loops
carry hotter gas than others. These active loops were so large that the
Earth could easily fit under one. |
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