Prominences

Prominences like this tend to be local to the Sun, and collapse after a few hours.

Sun Eruption Is Beautiful, Filament Explosion Is 400,000 Miles Long The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Prominences like this tend to be local to the Sun, and collapse after a few hours.

Sun Eruption Is Beautiful, Filament Explosion Is 400,000 Miles Long The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Prominences like this tend to be local to the Sun, and collapse after a few hours.

Sun Eruption Is Beautiful, Filament Explosion Is 400,000 Miles Long The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Prominences are classified, according to their form, into "flame" and "cloud" prominences, the spectrum of the latter showing calcium, hydrogen, and helium; that of the former including a number of metals.

History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

Flames (hence forward generally called “Prominences”) are composed of hydrogen gas in an incandescent state.

The Story of Eclipses 1878

Moreover, they are now commonly called “Prominences,” and with the improved methods of modern science may be seen almost at any time when the Sun is suitably approached; and they are not restricted in their appearance to the time when the Sun is totally eclipsed as was long supposed.

The Story of Eclipses 1878

Prominences surrounding the Sun -- Total Eclipse of the Sun -- Size and

The Story of the Heavens 1876

Movement of the Prominences -- Their connection with the

The Story of the Heavens 1876

Prominences shown by photography to be solar appendages.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

Plate I. Photographs of the Solar Chromosphere and Prominences _To face p. 198_

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874