There is a video of a snake on the surface of the sun.
The "serpent" spotted by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter is not a real stellar squamate but a new solar phenomenon that may be related to massive eruptions from a restless Sun.
The closest Solar Orbiter had been to date was planned for 12 October, when it will be called a perihelion. The video from that encounter was simply amazing.
The rippling line was seen by Solar Orbiter as it approached the sun. Solar scientists say this tube is a cooler one because it is bound by solar magnetic fields.
The sun's magnetic field can be seen in the video as the sun's magnetic field moves across the sun's surface.
The magnetic field is really twisted and you're gettingplasma flowing from one side to the other David Long is an astronomer at University College London.
Attempting to understand solar magnetic fields is a Herculean effort.
The solar atmosphere is made up of charged particles.
If you can follow the structures in the Plasma, you can get a good idea of what the magnetic fields are doing.
The magnetic field can be seen moving, but what it's moving away from makes it even more interesting.
After it carved its path across the Sun, the starting point of the filaments erupted in a mass ejection.
Sunspots are regions of concentrated magnetic field lines on the sun. There are magnetic field lines that tangle, snap, and connect.
It is possible that the snake was connected to one of the most powerful detected by Solar Orbiter since it was launched in February 2020.
NASA's solar probe was in the line of fire of the mass ejection. We're all eagerly waiting to see what it finds, since it was designed to survive solar flares and measure them.
The next Solar Orbiter perihelion is in April of next year. We're excited to see what the little probe shows us next as the sunspot activity continues to increase, leading into the peak of its 11-year activity cycle.
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