Solar Eye Candy
If you follow ImaGeo with any regularity, you probably know that I'm a bit obsessed with the sun. (And clouds too. But that's another story...) So I check in almost every day with the Facebook page of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The image above — a screenshot from a video — is what I just spotted.
Click on the image to see the video. It shows delicate filaments of plasma hovering above the sun's surface. They are levitated by magnetic fields. Suddenly, filaments appear to shoot off