Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2012

Those who watch the sun are regularly treated to brilliant shows - dancing loops of solar material rise up, dark magnetic regions called sunspots twist across the surface, and dazzling flares of light and radiation explode into space.
But there are smaller, barely visible events, too: much smaller and more frequent eruptions called nanoflares. Depending on how many and how energetic these