Solar prominence

An erupting prominence. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool, dense plasma suspended in the Sun’s hot, thin corona. Like this large, twirling prominence, they can sometimes erupt and escape the Sun’s atmosphere. This image was taken by the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite on 18 January 2000.

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NASA, Goddard Space Center

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