Cool Astro Pics

This is from the Solar Orbiter, operated by the ESA and NASA:

The Full Sun Imager of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured a giant solar eruption on 15 February 2022.

Solar prominences are large structures made of tangled magnetic field lines that keep dense concentrations of solar plasma suspended above the Sun’s surface and often take the form of arching loops.

This is the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc.

Amazing. Good that when that explosion went off, it was pointed that-a-way and not this-a-way.

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