NASA SDO - Graceful Eruption, March 16, 2013 @LittleSDOHMI

Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style during a little less than four hours of March 16, 2013).

The sequence was captured in extreme ultraviolet light. A large cloud of the particles appeared to hover further out above the surface before it faded away.

Credit: NASA SDO

NASA SDO - Graceful Eruption, March 16, 2013

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