• Focus on solar prominences of plasma floating away from the Sun.
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    This image of a prominence was taken with a Lunt Solar Systems 100mm Hydrogen-Alpha telescope, and a Lumenera 2-0 Color camera. Prominences are large clouds of plasma that flow along the Sun's magnetic field lines. The overexposed disk of the Sun was blocked out to show the prominences more clearly.

  • Focus on solar prominences of plasma floating away from the Sun.

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November 14, 2010

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Erin Braswell

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WEB11695-2010

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