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Ten Earths could easily fit in the “claw” of this seemingly solar monster. The monster, actually a huge eruptive prominence, is seen moving out from our Sun in this condensed half-hour time-lapse sequence. This large prominence, though, is significant not only for its size, but its shape. The twisted figure eight shape indicates that a complex magnetic field threads through the emerging solar particles. Differential rotation of gas just inside the surface of the Sun might help account for the surface explosion. The five frame sequence was taken in early 2000 by the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite. Although large prominences and energetic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are relatively rare, they are again occurring more frequently now that we are near the Solar Maximum, a time of peak sunspot and solar activity in the eleven-year solar cycle.
中文翻譯:
十個地球輕鬆可以容納在這個看似太陽怪物的「爪」中。這個怪物其實是一個巨大的噴發性日冕物質，從我們的太陽中移動而出，這是用半小時的壓縮時間序列拍攝的。這個大型日冕物質不僅因為其大小而重要，還因為其形狀。扭曲的八字形狀顯示出一個複雜的磁場穿過這些正在冒出的太陽粒子。太陽表面下方的氣體差異性旋轉可能有助於解釋這次的表面爆炸。這五幀序列是由圍繞太陽運行的SOHO衛星在2000年初拍攝的。儘管大型日冕物質和劇烈的日冕質量拋射（CMEs）相對較為罕見，但隨著我們接近太陽最高峰時期，即太陽黑子和太陽活動的巔峰，這些現象現在又再次頻繁出現。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
