Hinode: The Sun's south pole

A video from the 'Hinode: new insights on the origin of solar wind' article 7th December 07. Source and more videos- http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMGUB29R9F_index_0.html

'This movie shows observations from Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope of a region at the south pole of the Sun on 19 March 2007. The region shown is as large as three times the diameter of Earth. The thin fountains of gas at the limb of the Sun are seen to form rapidly propelling matter upward, while moving transversely to their own long axis during their short lifetimes. These transverse motions are caused by Alfvén waves that have enough power to drive the solar wind. The movie is sped up by a factor of 100 compared to what happens on the Sun.

Credits: LMSAL/NASA/JAXA/NAOJ'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hinode
• solar
• wind
• plasma
• sun
• magnetic
• field

[tongmaa]

These are Birkeland currents and represent cathode tufting as they twist around eachother. They have their equivalent currents at the North pole acting as anodes. The magnetic field the Sun creates reaches into interstellar space and transfer power to all the planets, too ... It's an electric universe and our Sun is a gigantic short circuit in the galactic Birkeland currents and which is itself being fed unimaginable currents from intergalactic sources ...

[dynamoehummm]

Wow, that's like Nibilu! But real!

And if you would put planet X or nibali thing in your tags, you would have, by my estimates 12x the views. Which yer probably not concerned with. Fair enough. But why does soome footage this cool, showing us visual phenomena, because its the sun, the hightempeatures, etc., so mundane?

This is interesting stuff. Nothing on earth moves like this. And rare's the chance to see something truly 'out of this world."

[mapexlb]

this is something truly magical... look at the movement and shapes of everything, it looks like nothing I have ever seen and I work with 3000-5000 degree heat every day....

[RobotsAreHereNow]

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