IRIS Movie of the Day
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.
Coronal snake
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Joten Okamoto
Plasma motion along complex and bent magnetic fields is seen in the corona of an active region. Generally magnetic fields are a semi-circular shape, but here you can see a "dogleg" shape. It is likely as a result of magnetic reconnection.