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Prominence from the Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA's newest sun-monitoring mission captures a detailed view of a prominence erupting on March 30, 2010.


NASA image and animation from the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio and the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published April 22, 2010
Data acquired March 30, 2010

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SDO > AIA