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Scientific visualizations heat up new documentary that helps explain sun’s strange phenomena

National Science Foundation invites media to Capitol Hill screening of 'Solar Superstorms'

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Solar Superstorms - Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch

Solar Superstorms documentary looks into the sun's violent phenomena and their impacts on Earth.

Credit: Spitz Inc.


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Coronal mass ejection

A coronal mass ejection in the making: magnetic loops pushing up from solar sunspots.

Credit: CME simulation by Yuhong Fan; solar surface simulation by Matthias Rempel, both from National Center for Atmospheric Research. Visualization by Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U. of Illinois.


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