Universal Transversal Oscillations - Music From The Sun

Monday, June 21, 2010 - 11:50 in Astronomy & Space

High-resolution images show that the solar corona is filled with large, banana-shaped magnetic structures called coronal loops. It is thought that these coronal loops, some over a few 100,000 km long, play a fundamental role in governing the physics of the corona and are even responsible for huge atmospheric explosions that occur in the atmosphere, what we call solar flares. read more

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