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I was looking at this beauty picture today when I noticed some strange looking waves around the sun, only showing up where the thick flairs are visible.

 

I assumed it was the SOHO telescope creating those effects, but I had'nt noiced it before untill such a large looking flare a perpendicular angle.

 

Is this gravity waves finally? :naughty:

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I was looking at this beauty picture today when I noticed some strange looking waves around the sun, only showing up where the thick flairs are visible.

 

I assumed it was the SOHO telescope creating those effects, but I had'nt noiced it before untill such a large looking flare a perpendicular angle.

 

Is this gravity waves finally? :naughty:

 

That is ginormous by anyone's standards! Good catch Arkain! It is the Sun's magnetic field forming those loops along field lines; think metal filings on paper over a magnet.

 

Here's a link to an animated series of gif images from that instrument of the outburst:

http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c2.gif

 

From a different SOHO instrument, another animated set of gifs of the burst:

http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif

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