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Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...

A recent study has shed new light on the dynamic evolution of solar prominences. By integrating high-resolution observational data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) with spectral ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A large solar prominence (bottom right) bursts from the sun while a plasma tornado (top right) ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Finally, a wonderful large prominence growing like an umbrella thorn acacia tree can be seen ...

During Monday afternoon's total solar eclipse, multiple things happened when the moon covered the sun. Before parts of northeast Ohio turned dark, a phenomenon called the Bailey's Beads effect ...

The April 8 total solar eclipse, showing a pronounced prominence at bottom. To observers on the ground, the prominences appeared as red dots along the perimeter of the eclipse. Image: paramsach (Fair ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Many people saw it during Monday’s total solar eclipse. Some kind of reddish-pink appendage poking out from the bottom of the moon. It looked kind of like an upside-down V. But what ...

During the total solar eclipse, skywatchers saw ruby-colored prominences sticking out of the moon's shadow. Here's the science of those red dots This article is part of a special report on the total ...

The highly anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, might offer some extra fireworks. It’s all thanks to a series of massive explosions that one solar physicist says could be visible during the ...

Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see? During ...