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000006981 100__ $$aHenke, Jans
000006981 245__ $$aThe Sun's fluffy corona in exquisite detail
000006981 260__ $$c2024
000006981 269__ $$c2024-05-02
000006981 520__ $$aThis otherworldly, ever-changing landscape is what the Sun looks like up close. ESA's Solar Orbiter filmed the transition from the Sun's lower atmosphere to the much hotter outer corona. The hair-like structures are made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the Sun's interior. The brightest regions are around one million degrees Celsius, while cooler material looks dark as it absorbs radiation.  This video was recorded on 27 September 2023 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on Solar Orbiter. At the time, the spacecraft was at roughly a third of the Earth’s distance from the Sun, heading for a closest approach of 43 million km on 7 October. On the same day that this video was recorded, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed just 7.26 million km from the solar surface. Rather than directly imaging the Sun, Parker measures particles and the magnetic field in the Sun’s corona and in the solar wind. This was a perfect opportunity for the two missions to team up, with ESA-led Solar Orbiter’s remote-sensing instruments observing the source region of the solar wind that would subsequently flow past Parker Solar Probe.
000006981 594__ $$aSTCE
000006981 6531_ $$aSolar Orbiter
000006981 6531_ $$aEUI
000006981 6531_ $$acorona
000006981 700__ $$aKraaikamp, Emil
000006981 700__ $$aD'Huys, Elke
000006981 700__ $$aMueller, Daniel
000006981 700__ $$aBerghmans, David
000006981 8560_ $$fdavid.berghmans@ksb-orb.be
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/04/The_Sun_s_fluffy_corona_in_exquisite_detail
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://www.stce.be/content/spot-moss-spicules-and-coronal-rain
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/video-of-suns-surface-captures-solar-rain-eruptions-and-coronal-moss
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://twitter.com/IntEngineering/status/1787176683940045111
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68957221
000006981 85642 $$ahttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/great-ball-of-fluffy-fire-how-the-sun-looks-in-extreme-close-up-lb63klt69
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