The impressive footage was captured by Mark Johnston from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona. Credit: Mark Johnston Music: A ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) captured a solar prominence erupting from the sun's surface. The SDO used high-definition cameras to record the prominence on ...

But what people were actually seeing were large loops of plasma, known as solar prominences, towering above the solar surface. Solar prominences form above sunspots when looping magnetic fields ...

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted with a flourish. The bright light of a solar flare on ...