We are quite familiar with the host star that sustains life on Earth, but the Sun’s boiling atmosphere still holds many secrets. Now, newly captured images are bringing scientists one step closer to realizing this strange phenomenon. The stunning images were taken by NASA’s High-Resolution Coronal Imager telescope (Hi-C), and then analyzed by a team of experts.The images revealed the plasma threads waving around in a hypnotic dance over the Sun’s outer layer. Scientists believe these shores might look small, but they are 500 kilometers wide. Each shore may be as hot as 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists are still clueless about what may have caused these threads to exist, but they think that knowing how they developed can help to get more insights into the Sun’s unpredictable solar weather.
