Coronal loop on the Sun (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Coronal loop on the Sun

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A video of a coronal loop on the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, showing the ʻcoronal rainʻ phenomenon. An image of the Earth is included to provide a scale for the loop, which is more than 10 times larger than Earth.

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