SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun [video]

The changes of a coronal cell region as solar rotation carries it across the solar disk as seen with NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft. The camera is fixed on the region (panning with it) and shows the plumes changing to cells and back to plumes again -- based on the observatory's perspective -- during the interval June 7-14, 2011.

 

To read more about this event go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-plumes.html

 

Credit: NASA/GSFC/STEREO

 

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Uploaded on April 10, 2012