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Soho stands for solar Heliospheric

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Observatory and it's a mission that was

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launched by ISA the European Space

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Agency and NASA in 1995 to study the Sun

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the Sun is a star and the universe is

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made up of stars but the Sun is very

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close to us we're able to see the Sun in

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great details so if we can understand

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our Sun the mount allows us to have a

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better understanding of the rest of the

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stars and then consequently the rest of

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the universe well the first time I saw a

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Soho image

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my reaction was basically wow it's blown

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away I've never seen the the kinds of

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detail the kinds of structure the kinds

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of dynamics that were going on and any

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sort of image of the Sun before I think

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that this is probably true for a lot of

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one of the ways that Soho studies the

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corona is using what we call a

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coronagraph and so a coronagraph creates

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an artificial eclipse because the Sun

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itself the surface of the Sun is about a

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million times brighter than this outer

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structure of the corona we need to block

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that bright disc out so you can see the

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much fainter outer corona using Soho and

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using technique called helioseismology

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very similar to seismology on the earth

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we're actually able to see inside the

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Sun and so what we were able to do is

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see the layer of the Sun just below the

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visible surface that we call the

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convection zone and that's where all

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sorts of dynamics are going on the

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inside of the Sun is bubbling up to the

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surface and that's really where all of

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the the solar phenomena that we see is

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first developed and so we were able to

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see underneath the surface and see these

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flows of solar plasma see the formation

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of sunspots

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and this is something that's never been

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done before we're actually able to see

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I have been staring at images from Soho

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for months and on months and the data

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was beautiful but then when I saw trace

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you got to see these fine detail these

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tiny loops that you completely didn't

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even imagine where there and then you

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see them and there it's like nothing

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you've ever seen you're seeing details

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of the coronal loops in the previous

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images you would from other satellites

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it would look like it was just one big

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loop and when you're actually good to

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see trace you can see it's all these

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teeny tiny finally they almost look like

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threads and there's teeny tiny loops and

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they're just breaking off and reforming

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and throwing claz m'a one loop can be

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vastly different temperature than the

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next loop and so that has been a big

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thing it's helped with magnetic data

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they're able to see that when the loops

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break off they can see the way that

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magnetic field is twisting and so the

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instruments on Soho work closely with

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trace or and vice versa so that we can

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use all the data together to better

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understand things