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Slow Moving Shadow in X-rays
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While looking through the XPOW archive, I came across an interesting quiet Sun XPOW. The XPOW highlights the dynamic nature of the quiet Sun. One feature caught my eye as it moved across the field of view. A shadowy-looking structure sweeps over a bright X-ray region. The above movie shows the shadow. There are only two things that could cause this. First, an absence of X-ray emission which doesn't seem likely, or the shadow consists of very cool and dense plasma. From this video it looks likely that the latter is the explanation. X-ray shadows are some of the most interesting and cool structures on the Sun.
Another example of a quiet Sun structure is QS Dark Structure.
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(Prepared by Patricia Jibben)
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