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                               2024 August 18

         IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/PBL1RBj-P1g?rel=0

                    A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
              Image Credit: [3]NASA/[4]Goddard/[5]SDO AIA Team

   Explanation: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting
   prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting [6]Solar Dynamic Observatory
   spacecraft imaged an [7]impressively large prominence erupting from the
   surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in
   the [8]featured time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame
   was taken every 24 seconds. The scale of the prominence is huge -- the
   entire [9]Earth would easily fit under the flowing [10]curtain of hot
   gas. A [11]solar prominence is channeled and sometimes held above the
   Sun's surface by the Sun's [12]magnetic field. A quiescent prominence
   typically lasts about a month and may erupt in a [13]Coronal Mass
   Ejection (CME) [14]expelling hot gas into the [15]Solar System. The
   energy [16]mechanism that creates a [17]solar prominence is a
   continuing topic of [18]research. Our Sun is again near [19]solar
   maximum and so very active, featuring numerous erupting prominences and
   CMEs, one of which resulted in [20]picturesque [21]auroras just over
   the past week.

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