A Solar Prominence from SOHO

[FLO]

Yet another pic of a 'common' solar prominence:

Original here:

http://tinyurl.com/ct4q2

[Jamie]

I just love these solar images.

Cheers for sharing.

[Ant]

lovely image.

Just amazes me just how big these things are - doesn't look that impressive till you realise that it about 50 times the size of the earth!

Ant

[daz]

Gorgeous 8)

[Ant]

thanks Daz

[daz]

<daz sighs and shakes his head>

[Carl]

:shock: Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Astroman]

And this from a relatively "quiet" Sun.  Amazing.

Take a look at the lower right portion of the Sun, too.  There's a string of prominence that looks rather like high, cirrus clouds here on Earth.  Except they stretch for probably 80,000 to 90,000 Km!

BTW Steve: You need to go to the archives portion of APOD to link to the individual image of the day-otherwise you get the current day's image. FYI.

[FLO]

BTW Steve:  You need to go to the archives portion of APOD to link to the individual image of the day-otherwise you get the current day's image.  FYI.

Ooops! I wonder how many times I have done that!!

Thanks for pointing it out Astroman,

Steve

[Michael Mozina]

Yet another pic of a 'common' solar prominence:

From the caption: "Although somehow related to the Sun's changing magnetic field, the energy mechanism that creates and sustains a Solar prominence is still a topic of research."

I would suggest that one area of research that might prove fruitful would be "electricity".

FYI, the "Granddaddy" of all recorded eruptions took place on June 28th 1945

http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/granddaddy.mpg

The amount of power it would take to create such an erruption is simply mind boggling IMO.

[FLO]

Great link Michael,

You can almost make out Voyager

Steve