High-resolution Nasa images show magnetic braids of the sun - video

Thursday, 24 Jan 2013

Nasa images of the sun's outer atmosphere, the highest resolution pictures ever achieved. The agency launched the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on 11 July 2012 from White Sands missile range in New Mexico. Hi-C's image sequences show the twisting up or braiding of the magnetic field that is threaded through the sun's outer atmosphere

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