Last year , a trio of Lord’s Day - gazers — SOHO , STEREO and Solar Dynamics Observatory ( SDO ) — captured unusual eruptions of plasma being “ puff up ” from the sun ’s corona . The GIF comes from SDO and picture the fountain that caused the puffs .
The three colors in the above image — violent , immature and blue — equate to three coronal temperature regimes , rate from ~0.8Mk to 2MK .
Today , Nathalia Alzate presented on the event , which lasted three days starting on January 17 , 2013 , at the National Astronomy Meeting 2014 in Portsmouth . Explained Alzate :
look at the corona discharge in Extreme UltraViolet light we see the beginning of the comforter is a serial of energetic jets and related flares . The jets are localized , ruinous releases of energy that vomit material out from the Sun into space . These rapid change in the magnetic field make flare , which release a vast amount of vim in a very short time in the variant of super - het plasm , high-pitched - energy radiation therapy and radio set fit . The big , slow structure is reluctant to erupt , and does not get down to smoothly propagate outwards until several jets have occurred .
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