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30th April 2013, 12:50
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Gg8ximeg58/UX-44e0T2lI/AAAAAAAAAZo/_0fo393fiKQ/s320/743348main_Timelapse_Sun_small.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Gg8ximeg58/UX-44e0T2lI/AAAAAAAAAZo/_0fo393fiKQ/s1600/743348main_Timelapse_Sun_small.jpg)The "Three Years of SDO Images" (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light-3rd.html) shows two bands of bright coronal loops in the 171 time-lapse image. Several people have asked whether this is real. Yes, it is real and it is caused by how sunspots form on the Sun.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-44-pUOLrg1w/UX-49aTU-9I/AAAAAAAAAZw/QEduyoPoJIA/s320/AR_butterfly.png (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-44-pUOLrg1w/UX-49aTU-9I/AAAAAAAAAZw/QEduyoPoJIA/s1600/AR_butterfly.png)We have seen that sunspots tend to occur below 35º latitude in both hemispheres of the Sun, just as you noticed. This gives us the Butterfly Diagram shown here for for sunspots since 1965. Northern active regions (or sunspots) are shown in blue and southern in red. A few regions appear at higher latitudes, but most sunspots are seen at low latitudes. Sunspots also tend to occur closer to the equator as a sunspot cycle moves along. They don't usually form at the equator, but the tilt of the Sun can make that difficult to verify.
The coronal loops in the time-lapse image follow this pattern because they live above sunspots. Although few sunspots and coronal loops are seen in the polar regions, prominences and coronal holes are seen there. We do not have a perfect explanation, but it comes from how material moves in the convection zone and how that movement creates magnetic fields. This is called the solar dynamo problem. Perhaps the explanation will be similar to why we have the Horse Latitudes here on Earth.

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mh842
1st May 2013, 18:57
Fluid dynamics transcends in how the atmosphere works with water vapour /nitrogen/oxygen monocles plus all the other gases in our atmosphere.
Giving us the ITCZ ( inter tropical convergence zone), which can be seen like the photo above of the sun but on earth satellite shots. This is created by the global movement or air parcels in the northern and southern hemisphere. Based on tilt of the earth 23 degrees and rotation (gravity). Based on atmospheric compression, I.e... The top of the troposphere at either poles is say for example is 32000' well the top of the troposphere at the equator is 45000'. This gives you a bulge of the area where weather occurs on earth for height and would do the same on the sun as the picture indicates above. This would lead me to believe that any molecular motion guided by the laws of physics and mathematics will dictate movement or motion of any substance on a planet with applications towards atmospheric motion.

Hope this makes sense it probably sounds better in my head than on paper but is a quick summery of how weather patters work on earth and should work the same for space weather on the Sun.

soleil
1st May 2013, 19:53
that is amazing, visually