NASA SDO - Frantic Loops January 9 - 15, 2013

Tracking our Active Region AR1654 from January 9 through January 15 across the Earth facing solar disk, we can see a frantic coming and going of coronal loops.

This Extreme Ultraviolet view shows us temperatures of about 1,000,000 K, which is about 1,800,000 degrees F.

Coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions. These structures are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface. Many coronal loops last for days or weeks but most change quite rapidly.

Credit: NASA SDO

[CamillaCorona]

That is correct. And the time in between each image is also increased. We can do 1 image every minute or ever 3 minutes or every hour. So you cover a longer duration with less frames, but then you also do not see all the details.