This wall of plasma is roughly 67,000 miles high-large enough to fit several planets the size of Earth. While this looks like it could be a preview of the new season of Stranger Things, it is a time-lapse composite of real image sets from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The images are from a coronal mass …
Humans cannot see all of the light that the sun emits but light detecting, spectroscopic, telescopes can. This image composite from NASA reveals that hidden light and x-rays radiating from the Sun and its atmosphere. Image captures like this can help us determine why the Sun’s corona reaches temps in the millions which is 100 times hotter …