Mysterious Fury | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 16:10 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer, or IRIS, has revealed fine detail in prominences within the sun's atmosphere (the red swirls shown in this space wallpaper), challenging the way scientists understand such events.

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