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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Leaky Solar Prominence
NASA ^ | 26 Aug, 2025 | Video Credit & Copyright: Andrea Girones

Posted on 08/26/2025 2:30:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: What's hovering above the Sun? A solar prominence. A prominence is a crest of hot gas expelled from the Sun's surface that is held aloft by the Sun's magnetic field. Prominences can last for days, can suddenly explode into space, or just fall back to the Sun. What decides a prominence's fate is how the Sun's complex magnetic field changes -- the field's direction can act like an offramp for trapped solar particles. The 3-second (repeating) time-lapse featured video was captured earlier this month from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It shows the development of a larger-than-Earth prominence as it appears to leak solar plasma back to the Sun, over the course of an hour. What is unusual is that the prominence appears to hover -- more simple and typical prominences form magnetic loops that connect back to the surface. Many hours after this video ended, the hovering prominence disintegrated back into the Sun.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 08/26/2025 2:30:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔 Todays image is a video at the source link.

2 posted on 08/26/2025 2:30:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

TTIUWP


3 posted on 08/26/2025 2:32:45 PM PDT by HandyDandy (“Borders, language and culture.” Michael Savage)
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To: MtnClimber

Is that a common thing? It looks like it isn’t igniting the way it’s supposed to.


4 posted on 08/26/2025 2:34:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MtnClimber

Good thing some other heavenly body isn’t leaking. We’d never hear the end of it.


5 posted on 08/26/2025 2:40:22 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

The sun is leaking large amounts of hot plasma due to earth’s climate change.


6 posted on 08/26/2025 2:44:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MtnClimber

I’d hate to be the sun.


7 posted on 08/26/2025 3:25:54 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s an amazing video.


8 posted on 08/26/2025 3:43:28 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: dragnet2
The sun is leaking large amounts of hot plasma due to earth’s climate change.

Some people believe the Earth’s climate change is serious — but it hasn’t earned a backstage pass to the Sun’s magnetic theater.

9 posted on 08/26/2025 3:51:42 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: Bullish
I’d hate to be the sun.

I think it would be nice at night.

10 posted on 08/26/2025 4:59:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Leaky ?.....It’s all fluxxed up........Needs some Depends...................


11 posted on 08/27/2025 5:18:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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