... Visible at the left edge is a solar prominence . Our Sun glows because it is hot, but it is not on fire. ... The composite also captures a pinkish prominence extending just beyond the upper edge of the eclipsed sun. | Archive | Index | ...
... A giant solar prominence seems to hang just beyond the Moon's eastern (left) edge while about one diameter farther east of the eclipsed Sun is the relatively faint (4th magnitude) star 1 Geminorum . ...
... C. The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the righthand solar limb ...
... A giant solar prominence seems to hang just beyond the Moon's eastern (left) edge while about one diameter farther east of the eclipsed Sun is the relatively faint (4th magnitude) star 1 Geminorum . ...
... The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspot s in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the right hand solar limb ...
... The composite also captures a pinkish prominence extending just beyond the upper edge of the eclipsed sun. Tomorrow's picture: vanished . < | Archive | ...