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A snake seeming to sinuously slink across the surface of the Sun has been captured in a new video by an observatory in close solar orbit.
However, the "serpent" spotted by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter is not a real stellar squamate but a newly observed solar phenomenon that may be linked to massive eruptions from a restless Sun.
The Orbiter observed the moving structure on 5 September as it moved in for its close approach – called a perihelion – planned for 12 October, the closest Solar Orbiter had been yet.
As Solar Orbiter approached, it imaged a rippling line propagating a long path across the Sun. Solar scientists say this is a cooler tube of plasma in the surrounding hot plasma of the Sun's atmosphere, bound by solar magnetic fields.
The video shows the plasma snaking across the Sun from one side to the other, following a filament of the solar magnetic field.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-insane-video-will-make-you-believe-theres-a-serpent-inside-the-sun
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However, the "serpent" spotted by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter is not a real stellar squamate but a newly observed solar phenomenon that may be linked to massive eruptions from a restless Sun.
The Orbiter observed the moving structure on 5 September as it moved in for its close approach – called a perihelion – planned for 12 October, the closest Solar Orbiter had been yet.
As Solar Orbiter approached, it imaged a rippling line propagating a long path across the Sun. Solar scientists say this is a cooler tube of plasma in the surrounding hot plasma of the Sun's atmosphere, bound by solar magnetic fields.
The video shows the plasma snaking across the Sun from one side to the other, following a filament of the solar magnetic field.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-insane-video-will-make-you-believe-theres-a-serpent-inside-the-sun
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