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Hefty Prominence Eruption Observed By SDO

Posted on Monday, October 19, 2015
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Hefty Prominence Eruption Observed By SDO
Image credit: NASA/SDO

Uploader comment: A mass of solar material gathered itself into a twisting mass, spun around for a bit, then rose up and broke apart over a 10-hour period on October 13, 2015. Prominences are unstable clouds of gas tethered above the surface of the sun by magnetic forces.


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