A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has captured a new video of Earth’s nearest star burping out plasma.
The video was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from July 9 to 10 and shows the special machinations of the star’s complicated magnetic fields.
In some ways, it looks like this is a video played in reverse, but it isn’t.
“Each burst of plasma licks out from the surface only to withdraw back into the active region — a dance commanded by complex magnetic forces above the sun,” NASA said in a statement. Read more…
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