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Hinode: source of the slow solar wind and superhot flares

2 April 2008

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An animation composed of X-ray images taken with Hinode over a 12-hour period on 20 February 2007. The material seen flowing away from the bright region on the right-hand side will eventually leave the Sun as the solar wind.

Credits: JAXA (T. Sakao) / NAOJ / NASA / STFC / ESA

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An X-ray image of the Sun made with the Hinode satellite on 20 February 2007. The insets show the flow of gas away from the bright region marked on the left. The blue image indicates material flowing towards us that will eventually make up the solar wind and the red image shows material flowing away from us back towards the surface of the Sun

Credits: JAXA / NAOJ / NASA / STFC / ESA / UCL (L. Harra)

A superhot micro flare

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An image of the solar flare taken using the X-Ray Telescope onboard Hinode on 7 June 2007. This picture shows the flare loops in the solar atmopshere at temperatures exceeding 10 million degree Celsius. The peak temperature of this flare measured by RHESSI, which is sensitive to much higher temeperatures, measured 15 million degrees.

Credits: JAXA / NAOJ / NASA / STFC / ESA

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