Sun's tenuous outer tendrils revealed in spectacular movies from European Solar Telescope
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
New and exciting extreme ultraviolet views of the Sun's high corona from ESA's PROBA2 mission reveal mysteriously beautiful, tenuous structure extending surprisingly far from the Sun itself. The spectacular movies from the Royal Observatory of Belgium's SWAP instrument on the ESA technology demonstration testbed PROBA2, revealing previously unseen feathery structure in the region where the solar wind is accelerated, were presented today at the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) meeting between the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division (AAS/SPD) and the American Geophysical Union's Space Physics and Aeronomy section (AGU/SPA) in Indianapolis, Ind.