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A New Video Captures Mossy Corona in the Sun’s Atmosphere in Extraordinary Detail

A New Video Captures Mossy Corona in the Sun’s Atmosphere in Extraordinary Detail


A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) reveals the riotous activity of the sun’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Taken by the Solar Orbiter in September, the footage captures a lush blanket of “coronal moss” met by bright arches, or the magnetic field lines that shoot from the interior. Researchers say the brightest regions reach a whopping one million degrees Celsius—the cooler spots appear darker because they absorb radiation—and the “fluffy” hair-like structures are made of charged plasma. More
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Orangutan Observed Treating a Wound With a Medicinal Plant for the First Time

Orangutan Observed Treating a Wound With a Medicinal Plant for the First Time

Biologists have observed a Sumatran male orangutan using the sap and chewed leaves of a medicinal plant to treat an open wound on his face. While there has been previous evidence of self-medication behaviors in animals, it is the first known incident of an animal in the wild treating a wound with a “biologically active […]
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