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Plasma falling to the surface of the sun. (i.imgur.com)
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Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom. Taken with my home made 90mm modded Coronado PST and DMK21 camera. Software: CdC, Eqmod, DSSR, AutoStakkert!, Wavesharp, DVS, Shotcut and Gimp.

David Wilson on April 8, 2025 @ Inverness, Scotland

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even cooler: solar flares and mass ejections come about when one of the lines snaps like a whip and hurls billions of tonnes of plasma into space. Search: solar magnetic reconnection.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see words in this thread but don’t understand, but are you saying here that those streams / clouds are taught? In order to be snapped.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, the material the streams are made of is magnetic, and there is a strong and unusual magnetic field around the sun. So those streams are trapped by magnetism.