8 thoughts on “ Solar Filament ”

1. Solar filaments on an H-alpha image of the Sun from July Credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory Solar filaments are dark lines or curves that sometimes appear in pictures of the Sun. Filaments are actually huge arcs of plasma (electrified gas) in the Sun's atmosphere.

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2. The gas in a filament will eventually move to a different layer in the Sun and will no longer be visible in an image of the chromosphere. But at the same time, other gas may move into the chromosphere and create a new filament someplace else. The birth and death of filaments is a mystery and the subject of ongoing study by solar scientists.

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3. WHAT ARE SOLAR FILAMENTS AND PROMINENCES? back to quimormimountiawrit.plasiccarjackhabursavolktebiconcent.co "Filaments are formed in magnetic loops that hold relatively cool, dense gas suspended above the surface of the Sun," explains David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. "When you look down on top of them they appear dark because the gas inside is cool compared to the hot .

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4. The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever changing magnetic field and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Watched closely by the Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the resulting explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth's.

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5. May 25,  · Solar filaments, also called solar prominences when appearing above the solar limb, are cold, dense materials suspended in the hot tenuous solar corona, consisting of Cited by: 1.

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6. Dec 01,  · Footpoints of Solar Filaments Martin, Sara F. Abstract. Quiescent filaments are characterized in part by appendages or `barbs' along each side of the long axis or `spine' of the filament. Observations of the barbs at the limb and against the disk show that the barbs are paths along which mass flows from the spine to the chromosphere or quimormimountiawrit.plasiccarjackhabursavolktebiconcent.co: Sara F. Martin.

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7. Filaments can last for several days – or sometimes up to months! Filaments are most common around the peak of the sunspot cycle (called solar max) when the Sun’s magnetic field is very active and explosive solar storms are more frequent. Filaments are actually the same feature as another solar phenomenon – prominences.

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