Dr
Young is a Research Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
His field of
research is the study of ultraviolet spectra from the Sun and other
stars. Links to Dr Young's publications and projects he is involved
with are given below.
This movie is
from my
recent paper. It shows a set of coronal loops at a
temperature of around 7 million degrees. The loops
brighten due to a solar flare and show a complex
pattern of motion, brightening and fading. By the end of
the sequence, the cooling loops are notably straighter
than they were at the beginning. This indicates a
release of magnetic energy during the flare. The white
lines show the location of the Solar Orbiter/SPICE spectrometer slit.
Images are from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of
NASA's
Solar Dynamics Observatory. The sequence lasts 60 minutes (see time in
top-left corner). The box has a size of 87,000 km x
33,000 km. For comparison, the Earth's diameter is
8000 km.
