Images taken from the NTU telescope

Our Sun isn't as quite and placid as we think!

The images above show a very large prominence of the Sun and were taken with NTU's solar scope on the 4th June between 15:57 UT and 16:44 UT.

Prominences are gigantic structures and are many times larger than even Jupiter, our largest planet; however they can change their appearance within minutes.

This short movie shows how the Sun throws off material that travels along invisible magnetic fields to rain back onto the Sun’s surface.

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