SDO | Gallery

« Return to gallery index

Bookmark and Share

Twisting Plasma

Twisting304.jpg
 
 

A close-up of twisting plasma above the Sun's surface produced a nice display of turbulence caused by combative magnetic forces (June7-8, 2016) over a day and a half. The plasma does not break away, but just spins and twists the entire period. Images were taken in extreme ultraviolet light. The mass we observed is part of a longer, darkish filament angling down from the upper left of the frame. Filaments are unstable clouds of plasma suspended above the Sun by magnetic forces. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.

Search Tag(s): aia, 304, plasma

 

Movies

 

Print version

 

Gallery Index