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Credit & Copyright: Chuck Ayoub
(Chuck's Astrophotography)
Explanation:
Sometimes the Sun's surface becomes a whirlwind of activity.
Pictured is a time-lapse video of the
Sun's surface taken over a two hour period in early May, run both forwards and
backwards.
The Sun's surface was blocked out so that
details
over the edge could be imaged in greater detail.
Hot plasma is seen swirling over the
solar
limb in an ongoing battle between changing
magnetic fields and constant gravity.
The featured
prominence rises about one
Earth-diameter over the Sun's surface.
Energetic events like
this are becoming less common as the Sun nears a minimum in its
11-year activity cycle.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 February 19 Á Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
- Circling the Sun
- APOD: 2023 December 11 Á Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- APOD: 2023 October 25 Á Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset
- Circular Sun Halo
- APOD: 2023 August 1 Á Monster Solar Prominence