太陽日冕上的奇特新異常 2012

Strange New Anomalies On Sun's Corona 2012
太陽日冕上的奇特新異常 2012
2012-04-11

Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. did what he always does look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
一位在華盛頓海軍研究實驗室的太陽能科學家尼爾Sheeley做他經常做的事，看完來自美國宇航局的太陽動力學天文台（SDO）的太陽日常圖像。
But on this day he saw something he'd never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun's atmosphere, the corona.
但在這一天，他看到一些之前他從來沒有注意過的東西：一個蜂房巢室的模式有明亮中心和黑暗邊界，發生在太陽的大氣層即日冕。
These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun's surface similar to the bubbles that rise to the top of boiling water but it was a surprise to find this pattern higher up in the corona, which is normally dominated by bright loops and dark coronal holes.
這些細胞看起來有點像一個蜂房巢室的模式，發生在太陽的表面類似湧上滾水上方的氣泡，但是一項驚奇去發現這模式高高在日冕中，那正常地是由明亮的循狀物和黑暗的冕洞所主導。