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Handle-shaped Prominence
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NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence in 1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun hot, thin corona.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHandle-shaped Prominence. NASA/JPL, 2001-02-17. Public domain. ID: PIA03149.
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