Goodness Gracious, Small Balls of Fire!
MAR 01, 1998
DOI: 10.1063/1.2833572
It was only last year that “blinkers,rdquo; the latest addition to the rich lexicon of solar phenomenology, were discovered by SOHO’s Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS). Lasting a few minutes, they appear as Earth‐sized explosions—3000 or so pop off at the same time on the solar surface.
© 1998. American Institute of Physics
