Solar Prominences and a Total Solar Eclipse
Solar prominences appear as pink features rising from the edges of the eclipsed Sun during a total solar eclipse. Cameras can even capture them just before or after totality, as seen here.
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
October 11, 2022
| Credit | NASA/Aubrey Gemignani |
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| Historical Date | August 21, 2017 |
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Some prominences are seen as the moon begins to move off the sun during the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon.
