35K views · 357 shares | 10x the diameter of Earth, this solar prominence rising up above the Sun's surface was spotted by our Solar Dynamics Observatory last week. Prominences are unstable clouds of cooler plasma suspended above the Sun by strong magnetic forces. They often fall apart after a few days. Check it out: https://go.nasa.gov/2Qen39h | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament eruption in multiple wavelengths on Sept. 16, 2023. The eruption created a coronal mass ejection that "should hit Earth's magnetic field on Sept. 19th," according to Spaceweather.com Full story 👉 https://trib.al/WV4V1gb Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Floating, Floating by August Wilhelmsson / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com | Space.com

41K views · 310 reactions | Solar Prominence by Hinode Solar...

1.7K views · 130 reactions | A large eruption occurs off the limb of the Sun in this image sequence, and you can see the solar prominence in the lower right. ☀️ Prominences appear when relatively cooler gas from lower layers of the Sun’s atmosphere is trapped in a magnetic field loop that extends outward from the Sun’s surface, into the hotter corona. Video: NASA | Canadian Space Agency | Facebook