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This movie is
from my
recent paper. It shows a set of coronal loops at a
temperature of around 7 million degrees. The loops
brighten due to a solar flare and show a complex
pattern of motion, brightening and fading. By the end of
the sequence, the cooling loops are notably straighter
than they were at the beginning. This indicates a
release of magnetic energy during the flare. The white
lines show the location of the Solar Orbiter/SPICE spectrometer slit.
Images are from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of
NASA's
Solar Dynamics Observatory. The sequence lasts 60 minutes (see time in
top-left corner). The box has a size of 87,000 km x
33,000 km. For comparison, the Earth's diameter is
8000 km.
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