Solar Flares

	Hinode Solar Granules Hinode's instruments provide incredible spatial resolution, revealing amazing details of the sun, as seen in this visualization. The light and dark blobs in the video are solar granules, masses of hot gas that rise and fall like boiling water. Each granule is about the size of one of Earth’s continent.
	Another View of AR9906 from TRACE This movie shows the evolution of a solar active region as the magnetic loops break through the solar surface to create an eventual flare event.
	Solar Tadpoles Here is a close-up view of dark 'tentacles' or 'tadpoles' moving towards the solar surface in this solar flare of April 21, 2002 seen by TRACE. One theory proposed as to why solar “tadpoles” form is that they are due to voids created by magnetic reconnection in the flare.