Remarkable backyard footage captures giant solar prominence and streams of coronal rain flowing along the sun's magnetic ...

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 ...

Arizona astrophotographer Mark Johnston recorded a rare human-shaped solar prominence on May 31, 2026, using a hydrogen-alpha ...

A viral photo shows a commercial jet transiting the Sun alongside glowing solar prominences captured over six days.

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of significantly cooler solar plasma—about 10,000 ...

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 ...

The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase. Reading time 2 minutes We were hoping for something like this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that ...

The new computer simulations are based on a magnetic field structure that is often associated with prominences: the magnetic field lines in the corona form a double arc with a small dip in the middle.