Solar Prominence by Hinode Solar prominence is cool gas floating in the solar atmosphere. Prominence material is denser than surrounding coronal plasma, but it is sometimes suspended in the corona for a long time. Coronal magnetic fields could act like a hammock, supporting the prominence material. Gas in the prominence moves up and down, showing the waves are propagating along magnetic field lines. It is thought that this wave may carry energy from the photosphere to the corona and that the ene

• Solar Prominance • Taken over a period of approx 11 hrs. The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma. Also visible are Spicules, a dynamic jet of plasma in the Sun's chromosphere about 300 km in diameter, rise at a rate of 20 km/s (or 72,000 km/h) and can reach several thousand kilometers in height before