It rains on the Sun. The loops are plasma falling back toward the surface after an eruption. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this on July 19, 2012. The plasma traces magnetic field lines as it cools and condenses. This is extreme-ultraviolet observation, mapped into visible color and shown as a time-lapse, not real-time footage or a simulation. Visuals: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory. Source visualization by Tom Bridgman. Excerpted, cropped to the active region, accelerated 3× relative to the source video, with text and a blurred footage backdrop added. Source audio removed. This edit shows about 6 hours 36 minutes of observations in 22 seconds. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4026/ NASA media use guidelines: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/ No NASA endorsement implied. Music: “Floating Cities” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1600018 Music excerpted, level-adjusted and faded. #FliiCurious #SolarScience
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