NASA SDO - Hot Flares in a Hot Wavelength (April 21 - 23, 2011)

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Almost 2 dozen flares were unleashed in just over two days (Apr. 21-23, 2011) from the tangled magnetic fields of active region 11195. In this wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light (94 Angstroms), the flares appear as rapid brightenings of the strong active region that moves from the left towards the center in the movie. The vertical lines are a reaction of the CCD in the telescope to the overwhelmingly bright light. What we are actually looking at is ionized iron heated to over 6 million degrees. Now that is HOT!

Credit: NASA SDO

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  • Notice how a lot of those rays are absorbed back into the sun. Maybe this means that sunspots are actually a series of vortex-like structures... creating a feedback loop ... singularity at the center..

  • how do you get this vids  ? quality is great

  • we shall expect something big in the next week

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