Supra-arcade Downflows (VIDEO)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Caption

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a supra-arcade downflow within a solar flare that occurred on Nov. 29, 2020.

Credit

NASA SDO/Sijie Yu

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