The impressive footage was captured by Mark Johnston from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona. Credit: Mark Johnston Music: A ...

But what people were actually seeing were large loops of plasma, known as solar prominences, towering above the solar surface. Solar prominences form above sunspots when looping magnetic fields ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) captured a solar prominence erupting from the sun's surface. The SDO used high-definition cameras to record the prominence on ...

It made the first moving pictures of solar prominences and the first second-to-second film of a total solar eclipse. The films made at the observatory were distributed to schools all over the ...

The event, described by scientists as "very rare, beautiful, and even a bit strange," involved a cold prominence rich in ...