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.
Loops and Flare at Limb
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Paul Bryans
IRIS observed these coronal loops as they extended above the surface of the Sun. Eventually the region flared to produce the bright eruption.