The “snake” that appears in the sun: the video of the phenomenon

2022-11-18 16:54:00

The “snake”, discovered during its approach to the Sun by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, is a flow of cold plasma trapped by magnetic field lines in the hottest environment of the solar atmosphere. It was moving at a speed of 170 km/s or 612 thousand km/h.
As ScienceAlert.com writes, “The snake spotted by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter is not a true stellar scalemate, but a recently observed solar phenomenon that could be linked to massive eruptions from a restless Sun.” Here are the insights on the ESA website.