Waspie_Dwarf Posted August 10, 2012 #1 Share Posted August 10, 2012 One Half Million Mile Solar FilamentNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface. Filaments are cooler clouds of solar material that are tethered above the sun’s surface by unstable magnetic forces. The image and video, which covers August 6-8, 2012 show the filament as a darker strand that has been in view for several days. Towards the end of the video part of the filament seems to break away, but its basic length and shape seem to have remained mostly intact.Credit: NASASource: NASA - Multimedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted August 10, 2012 #2 Share Posted August 10, 2012 It is awesome to watch the activity of our sun. Kinda scary to me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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