Solar prominences, huge arcs of plasma hovering above the Sun, are getting fresh attention from scientists studying space ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have detailed how solar prominences—dense, cool plasma structures in the Sun’s corona—can remain suspended for weeks or months. Using ...

Solar prominences are massive chunks of plasma floating above the Sun’s surface, which can cause dangerous solar eruptions.

Prominences are cool plasma structures extending several thousand kilometers in the Sun’s hot corona. Some persist for weeks.

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...