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Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun

By |2024-06-15T09:09:19-04:00June 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This colorized and sharpened image of the Sun is composed of frames recording emission from hydrogen atoms in the solar chromosphere on May 15. Approaching the maximum of solar cycle 25, a multitude of active regions and twisting, snake-like solar filaments are seen to sprawl across the surface of the [...]

Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant

By |2024-04-16T09:09:05-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into [...]

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