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Images & Animations
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Credit
Naval Research Laboratory
Delta Sunspot
When a large bundle of magnetic field lines breaks through the Sun's surface, a sunspot can form. Sometimes, a smaller spot will emerge nearby, creating a magnetically complex region where particles are energized and then violently expelled. Supercomputer models show that rearranging magnetic field lines enables this process.
A animation of the magnetic field of a sunspot, where the magnetic field at the Sun's surface is colored blue for strong fields pointing into the sun and red for strong fields pointing out of the Sun. The white lines represent magnetic field lines.
Metadata
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Sensor
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Animation ID
551 -
Video ID
SVS1999-0001 -
Start Timecode
01:01:46:29 -
End Timecode
01:02:36:07 -
Animator
Brendan Antiochos -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
1999/01/21 -
Scientist
C. Richard DeVore (Naval Research Laboratory), Spiro Antiochos (Naval Research Laboratory), John Gardner (Naval Research Laboratory) -
Keywords
Sunspots, Magnetic Fields -
DLESE Subject
Space science -
Data Date
None -
Animation Type
Regular