Video: A comprehensive Simulation of a Solar Flare

In this video, scientists simulate the formation of a solar flare, including for the first time the spectrum of light emissions known to be associated with such flares. "This work allows us to provide an explanation for why flares look like the way they do, not just at a single wavelength, but in visible wavelengths, in ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, and in X-rays," said Mark Cheung, a staff physicist at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. "We are explaining the many colors of solar flares."

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