NASA image: Dynamic solar activity as opposing magnetic forces tangle
Friday, May 23, 2014 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in almost to its maximum level to watch tight, bright loops and much longer, softer loops shift and sway above an active region on the sun, while a darker blob of plasma in their midst was pulled about every which way (May 13-14, 2014).