by APOD Robot » Sat Sep 19, 2015 4:08 am
A Prominence on the Sun
Explanation: This eerie landscape
of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun's eastern horizon on September 16.
Captured through a backyard telescope and narrowband filter in light from ionized hydrogen, the scene reveals a gigantic prominence lofted above the solar limb. Some 600,000 kilometers across, the magnetized plasma wall would dwarf worlds of
the Solar System. Ruling gas giant Jupiter can only boast a diameter of 143,000 kilometers or so, while planet Earth's diameter is less than 13,000 kilometers. Known as a hedgerow prominence for its appearance, the enormous structure is far from stable though, and such large solar
prominences often erupt.
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