The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun. The dark-looking material is dense plasma ...

Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured breathtaking footage of a massive solar prominence, a towering cloud of plasma seemingly stalking the edge of the sun. The striking videos, shared with ...

A recent study has shed new light on the dynamic evolution of solar prominences. By integrating high-resolution observational data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) with spectral ...

Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...

A simulation from sub-photosphere to the corona shows how our Sun forms prominences in a dipped magnetic arcade: through synergy between sporadic injection of chromospheric matter and a siphoned mass ...

Solar prominences are beautiful and complex objects in the solar atmosphere. As gas clouds that are two orders of magnitude cooler and denser than the surrounding hot solar corona, they appear in ...