February 4, 2016

Solar Prominence

Solar Prominence

Searing hot loops of plasma radiate from the edge of our local star – the Sun – in a phenomenon known as a solar prominence. Emanating from the Sun’s outer shell, from which light is emitted, prominences extend to the corona, which is the aura of the plasma surrounding it. A typical prominence covers over thousands of kilometres, with the largest ever recorded estimated to be over 800,000 kilometres, equalling roughly the radius of the Sun itself.

Image Credit & Copyright: Gary Palmer
Explanation by: Royal Observatory Greenwich

2 comments:

  1. How is it going with Cooling down of the sun's prominences

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  2. wow it looks very beautiful to the eye, but the heat sometimes can be very terrible but i love it.

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