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Uploaded by on Aug 30, 2007

The Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, shimmers due to magnetic ripples called Alfven waves, which are seen here for the first time in the corona. The video was made from infrared observations taken at the National Solar Observatory in New Mexico, US.

More: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12564

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  • 'basically gravity'... last time i checked gravity and alfven waves didn't have anything to do with each other, nice try though.

    Anyway good vid

  • instead of taking up hard drive space or bandwidth on their own servers, the post their videos on youtube. i didnt need to be walked through the video to become intrigued by it and want to read the article. i read the whole thing, i suggest you do the same this is cutting edge.

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  • RE: dangerousecelt

    "basically gravity"

    Er... ok?? So we are stuck here on this planet, with wanna be smart arse folks like you, because the magnetic forces are acting on us? Whatever.

    Explain why we are not all being slowly sucked into the poles? - or shut up and stop misleading stupid people with your twaddle!

  • Cool word play - they let you have a 'puter' at the old people's home then? Ooh, time for CountDown... :o)

  • Hey 3Deity, if you took more notice of education maybe you would have the life skill of spelling. No one is spelled; no one or in the use of the pronoun; no-one, never none. None is none, please don't utter BBC again

  • for those of you who dont know the grey lines that are moving like currents are magnetic fields that is basically gravity

  • i see a grey blur...

  • eeeh.......what?

  • None comes on YouTube to get educated. This ain't a university, that said I grew up on BBC 'popular science', terrific stuff!

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