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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2022 June 24   
      
                           Filaprom on the Western Limb   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Wise   
      
      Explanation: A solar filament is an enormous stream of incandescent   
      plasma suspended above the active surface of the Sun by looping   
      magnetic fields. Seen against the solar disk it looks dark only because   
      it's a little cooler, and so slightly dimmer, than the solar   
      photosphere. Suspended above the solar limb the same structure looks   
      bright when viewed against the blackness of space and is called a solar   
      prominence. A filaprom would be both of course, a stream of magnetized   
      plasma that crosses in front of the solar disk and extends beyond the   
      Sun's edge. In this hydrogen-alpha close-up of the Sun captured on June   
      22, active region AR3038 is near the center of the frame. Active region   
      AR3032 is seen at the far right, close to the Sun's western limb. As   
      AR3032 is carried by rotation toward the Sun's visible edge, what was   
      once a giant filament above it is now partly seen as a prominence, How   
      big is AR3032's filaprom? For scale planet Earth is shown near the top   
      right corner.   
      
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