A “huge, handle-shaped prominence” photographed on 14 September 1999. “Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun’s hot, thin corona. At times, they can erupt, escaping the Sun’s atmosphere.” Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO [2100 x 2034] via /r/spaceporn https://ift.tt/2JcBY5d

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