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Handle-shaped Prominence
ESA/NASA/SOHO2001-02-17
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence in 1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun hot, thin corona.
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- Title: Handle-shaped Prominence
- Creator: ESA/NASA/SOHO
- Date Created: 2001-02-17
- Rights: JPL
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