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Coils of Magnetic Field Lines
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A smallish solar filament looks like it collapsed into the sun and set off a minor eruption that hurled plasma into space (June 20, 2017). Then, the disrupted magnetic field immediately began to reorganize itself, hence the bright series of spirals coiling up over that area. The magnetic field lines are made visible in extreme ultraviolet light as charged particles spin along them.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCoils of Magnetic Field Lines. NASA/JPL, 2017-06-27. Public domain. ID: PIA21764.
