2022 January 30 - A Solar Prominence from SOHO
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2022-01-30

In today's image, we see an image of our Sun from the SOHO space observatory. We see a large prominence in the upper right as plasma from Sun's surface is lifted off by the intense magnetic fields. 

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