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Shifting Plasma
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Strands of solar material at the sun's edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period in this footage captured May 2-3, 2017, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. In this close-up, the strands are being manipulated by strong magnetic forces associated with active regions. To give a sense of scale, the strands that hover above the sun are more than several times the size of Earth.
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Credit lineShifting Plasma. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000055.
