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NASA’s New, Stunning Imagery Of Solar Storms
Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:42
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An image filter helps researchers find patterns in the sun’s violent weather systems.
Gradient SunNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientists who study solar weather try to find patterns in the violent, chaotic motion of magnetic field lines above the sun’s surface. Though the lines aren’t actually visible, their patterns are illuminated by the streams of hot plasma that travel along them. But, while the giant coronal loops that form during major solar storms are easy to pick out, the field lines are generally so tangled up that it’s hard to pick any one of them out.
oh very nice,get some 5 year old to do that,lol