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Churning Prominence
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On Jan. 23-24, 2017, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as a solar prominence rose up along the edge of the sun and twisted and churned for about two days before falling apart. The dynamic action was generated by competing magnetic forces. The images were taken in a wavelength extreme ultraviolet light that observes activity close to the solar surface, perfect for capturing prominences, which are notoriously unstable clouds of plasma suspended above the sun.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineChurning Prominence. NASA/JPL, 2017-01-30. Public domain. ID: PIA11237.
