Visualization of a Solar Flare (VIDEO)

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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This visualization is an animation of the solar flare modeled in the new study. The violet color represents plasma with temperature less than 1 million Kelvin. Red represents temperatures between 1 million and 10 million Kelvin, and green represents temperatures above 10 million Kelvin.

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Video courtesy Mark Cheung, Lockheed Martin, and Matthias Rempel, NCAR

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