Solar Prominence by Hinode Solar prominence is cool gas floating in the solar atmosphere. Prominence material is denser than surrounding coronal plasma, but it is sometimes suspended in the corona for a long time. Coronal magnetic fields could act like a hammock, supporting the prominence material. Gas in the prominence moves up and down, showing the waves are propagating along magnetic field lines. It is thought that this wave may carry energy from the photosphere to the corona and that the ene

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

Bright Filament Eruption An elongated solar filament that extended almost half the Sun's visible hemisphere erupted into space (Apr. 28-29, 2015) in a large burst of bright plasma. Filaments are unstable strands of plasma suspended above the Sun by magnetic forces. Solar astronomers around the world had their eyes on this unusually large filament and were thrilled to see it erupt. Both of SOHO's coronagraph instruments show the coronal mass ejection associated with the eruption. Credit: NASA/ESA

HINODE • Solar Prominence 3.5.2022 • A prominence is cool gas floating in the solar atmosphere. The Solar Optical Telescope installed on the solar observing satellite “Hinode” showed that a prominence is not static; it is a collection of unimaginably violently churning fine scale structures. If you watch the “Hinode” video closely, you can see many phenomena such as up-and-down motions, oscillations, swirls, and rising black voids sweeping the prominence. By the way, despite being heavier than t

182K views · 3.7K reactions | • IRIS Views a Solar Prominence Bubble...