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At least once a week a movie of the Sun taken by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is posted by one of the scientists operating the instrument.
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26 Nov 2020
Even small flares have much to teach us
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA
Solar activity has started to ramp up this month, with the frequency of larger class flares increasing as we move into the new solar cycle. However - smaller flares have much to teach us too, and their observations are just as informative as those of more explosive events. Here, at a stunning rate of 1.7 seconds per frame, we see low level flaring produce a complex network of flare ribbons.