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loveisamyth 68M
849 posts
1/27/2015 11:58 am

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1/30/2015 2:18 pm
SOLAR FLARES OVER THE LIMB
Solar activity is low, but this could change with the arrival of an active sunspot currently located just behind the sun's eastern limb. Note the circled hot spot in this extreme ultraviolet image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Plumes of hot plasma trapped in the sunspot's magnetic canopy, false-colored pink in the image above, herald the arrival of the underlying sunspot. It should emerge into view in a day or so.

Meanwhile, several sunspots on the Earth side of the sun are growing and beginning to crackle with flares. Of particular interest are AR2268 and AR2271, which have increasingly unstable 'beta-gamma' magnetic fields. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of M-flares in the next 24 hours.
Rocketship 79F
18563 posts
1/27/2015 6:40 pm

 Amazing photo!!!!




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