Solar Wave (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Solar Wave

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Scientists analyzed sunspot images from a trio of observatories -- including the Big Bear Solar Observatory, which captured this footage -- to make the first-ever observations of a solar wave traveling up into the sun's atmosphere from a sunspot.

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Credit: BBSO/Zhao et al

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