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.
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9 Nov 2022
Jetting sunspot
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Reetika Joshi
Streamline plasma flows (jets) from the boundary of a big sunspot. These escaping flows are beautifully covered with the IRIS slit and interestingly also with the SPectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter.