NASA pacecraft captures giant filament on Sun
February 12, 2015 19:26
A NASA spacecraft has captured a giant solar filament which appears as a
dark line snaked across the lower half of the Sun and is longer than 67
Earths lined up in a row.
An image captured by the NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on
February 10 shows the filament of solar material hovering above the
Sun's surface.
The SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of colder material hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the corona.
The SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of colder material hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the corona.
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