Sentences with phrase «magnetic image of the sun»

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 team captured images of «solar braiding,» the transfer of energy from the sun's magnetic fields to the corona, theorized in 1983 but never observed.

Images of the sun in the far ultraviolet and in X-rays (acquired most recently by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, the Yohkoh satellite, and the NIXT rockets) show that the heating of the corona is localized in solar active regions, which indicates the important role played by the magnetic field.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched by NASA in February, returns 16 - megapixel images of the sun on a nearly continuous basis, splits the sun's emissions into its individual wavelengths, tracks the propagation of waves across the sun's surface and maps the ever shifting solar magnetic field.

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high - resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux ropes at their point of origin in the Sun's chromosphere.

Taking advantage of an unusual pair of nearby stars, astronomers have for the first time captured images of a magnetic field generated by a star other than our sun.

Rooted in the Solar Magnetic Field, the structure of the corona is visible extending a million miles above the Sun's surface in this composite image from the EIT and UVCS instruments onboard the SOHO spacecraft.

The image is false color, looking almost directly down over coronal loops, immense magnetic arches of hot gas that are anchored in the Sun's visible surface and could span dozens of Earths laid end to end.

An image of the Sun taken with The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

The GOES satellites carry a large contingent of «space weather» instruments that take images of the Sun and track magnetic and radiation levels in space around them.