Rocket camera catches Sun 'sparkles' (BBC)

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By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

Scientists have obtained the sharpest view yet of features in the Sun's atmosphere using an experimental camera launched on a short-lived rocket.

The system returned just five minutes of data, but this was enough to identify a fascinating new phenomenon the researchers refer to as "sparkles".

These are bright points that appear along magnetic field lines where huge amounts of energy are released.

The discovery is being reported at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.

It may help to explain how the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the star's surface, its photosphere.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23132751

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1. Oxford seems to have reported this research in May already....

Scientific Breakthrough Reveals Stars Consist Primarily Of Twinkles
News in Brief • Science & Technology • News • ISSUE 49•22 • May 28, 2013

WASHINGTON—In a breakthrough study that experts say completely reshapes our understanding of the cosmos, a team of astrophysicists at Oxford University have discovered that stars, the celestial bodies that represent the fundamental building blocks of galaxies, are composed primarily of twinkles. “When we look up at the night sky, all we see are tiny dots of light, but in reality these luminous interstellar objects are made up of trillions and trillions of tiny twinkles,” said lead researcher Professor Paul Denton, who added that each twinkle itself contains billions of small twinkle fractals all held together by the forces of gravity. “Moreover, the twinkles we observe with the naked eye are in fact twinkles that twinkled millions of years ago that are only now visible from earth.” Researchers added that twinkles are very pretty and sparkly.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientific-breakthrough-reveals-stars-consist-prim,32597/

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2. I think these are feeding micro-black holes orbiting below the Sun's outer surface.

Just a pet theory of mine. If micro black holes orbit anything it would be stars or other small black holes.

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4. Could this be why a White to Yellow mass star, lasts a very long time ratio wise to a hung Blue

mass star? This is interesting.

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3. For the video, here it is