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2022年9月13日 A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination) Explanation: Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament’s full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun’s radiu...
2022年6月24日 Filaprom on the Western Limb Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Wise Explanation: A solar filament is an enormous stream of incandescent plasma suspended above the active surface of the Sun by looping magnetic fields. Seen against the solar disk it looks dark only because it’s a little cooler, and so slightly dimmer, than the solar photos...
2021年11月08日 A Filament Leaps from the Sun Video Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Poirier Explanation: Why, sometimes, does part of the Sun’s atmosphere leap into space? The reason lies in changing magnetic fields that thread through the Sun’s surface. Regions of strong surface magnetism, known as active regions, are usually marked by dark sunspot...