NASA shares the appearance of the sun up close, there is an unexpected appearance

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Monday, 06/05/2024 15:10 IWST

Photo: Solar Orbiter. (Doc. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team)

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The European Space Agency, Solar Orbiter, observes habitual patterns in the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The outer layer or corona of the Sun is a dynamic landscape with some interesting textures, ranging from ‘moss’ to ‘rain’.

The latest video launched by Solar Orbiter and NASA shows a close-up view of the active Sun’s corona.

Previously, a powerful eruption that released many particles into the Solar System was captured on video. In September last year, the Solar orbiter also detected a smaller eruption, accompanied by moss and rain in the corona.

All the details have just been released in a short video, quoted from IFLScience, Monday (6/5/2024).

Corona circles with eruptions and turbulent moss create another effect, namely corona rain. The temperature of this circle is very high, around 1 million degrees Celsius.

Some of the plasma cools and thanks to gravity falls back down in dark, high-density clumps that cause rain.

The temperature is still hot, but much lower, around 10,000 degrees Celsius.

Solar Orbiter took a video of the Sun’s corona from close range on September 27 2023. A few days later, on October 7 2023, observations reached the closest distance from the Sun, namely 43 million km.

That distance is less than one-third the distance from Earth to the Sun. On the same day, NASA’s Sun observer, Parker, was 7.26 million km from the Sun.

So, the two institutions work together to carry out observations and measurements. Together, NASA and Solar Orbiter finally succeeded in detecting important data about the Sun and how it works.

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