Handle-shaped Prominence
NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence in 1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun hot, thin corona.
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NASA ID
PIA03149
Date Created
February 17, 2001
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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