Sentences with phrase «loops of plasma»

Loops of plasma are held in place by the sun's strong magnetic fields, concentrated in active regions that are visible to the naked eye as sunspots.

The pictures reveal that the loops of plasma can be close neighbors yet have very different temperatures.

The mystery of the sun's super-hot atmosphere may lie in giant loops of plasma that are mostly invisible to today's solar probes.

Not exact matches

He won't be looking for elusive infrared photons, but instead will be taking rapid - fire images of plasma loops — coils of ionized gas trapped in billowing magnetic fields — arcing off the sun and peeking out from behind the moon.

The corona is made up of charged plasma, which roils in famous loops and fans that follow magnetic field lines emerging from the surface of the sun (SN Online: 8/17/17).

Using computer simulations, they modeled the response of the plasma confined in loops to the energy transported by energetic electrons.

IRIS does not observe the hottest coronal plasma in these loops, which can reach temperatures of several million degrees.

Coronal loops are giant magnetic arches filled with hot plasma at temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius.

High - energy protons and electrons come screaming out of the reconnection site, flow along the loop, and crash into the denser plasma at the sun's surface.

The purplish aura reveals high - arcing loops of 3.6 - million - degree plasma that link sunspots and other magnetic areas on the surface; white lines illustrate computer calculations of how the magnetic areas connect.

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory captures video of superheated plasma loops far larger than Earth as they rain down on solar surface

This include flares and CMEs, as well as other features that might indicate that flares or eruptions are imminent, such as filaments, which are bundles of plasma held down by magnetic field lines, coronal loops and sunspots.

It needs to be: seven of these loops will be stacked on top of each other to form one of the many magnets that will confine and direct hydrogen plasma at up to 100 million °C in the reactor vessel.

As each cycle progresses, the movement of this plasma (black loop) shifts the solar magnetic fields (gold strands)-- from which sunspots erupt — from the sun's midlatitudes to its equator.

The corona's hot plasma is a radiant, ever - changing tiara, full of bright loops and whorls that bend, sway and snap.

Physicists aim to solve this mystery by mapping the coronal loops: streams of hot, glowing plasma that follow magnetic field lines...

This channel is especially good at showing coronal loops - the arcs extending off of the Sun where plasma moves along magnetic field lines.

The smallest loops visible - which consist of electrically charged particles, or plasma - are only about 200 miles wide.

To explore this possibility, we bulk cloned and sequenced the V3 loop of Env, the main determinant of coreceptor tropism [48], from plasma isolated from three R5 - ZFN mice and three X4 - ZFN mice at the time of sacrifice.

It can image the fine - scale magnetic structure of coronal loops and track plasma features with astounding precision.

Jeremy Blake, Station to Station: Carbon Sink Park, 2001 Still from DVD with sound for projection or plasma screen 16 minute continuous loop Jeremy Blake, an up - and - coming artist who sought to bridge the worlds of painting and film in lush, color - saturated, hallucinatory digital video works, has died.