Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Another Sunny Video

The Sun demonstrated another spectacular display recently. Here you can see a small limb extending from the sun, and just below it, you can see some "closed magnetic loops". See how the plasma races along these field lines. This is the net I spoke of in my previous post. If enough plasma gets trapped in there, it can burst as a CME.



Credit to www.spaceweather.com for the image.