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I didn't even pay them to do this. Erica from Close-up and Rhian, one of our excellent poets featured in Issue 1.
photography by Stef Walters
These are lightbulbs from my center high mount brake light. At least two of the five bulbs were out so I decided to replace them all. Then I thought they looked kind of neat and might make for some interesting abstract photography.
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A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the Sun and out into space (Nov. 1, 2014). The video covers just over three hours of activity. This kind of eruptive event is called a Hyder flare. These are filaments (elongated clouds of gases above the SunÕs surface) that erupt and cause a brightening at the Sun's surface, although no active regions are in that area. It did thrust out a cloud of particles but not towards Earth. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme UV light. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.