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Stellare is a woman from ÅSA, Norway.

Earth science expert and astrophysicist interested in Earth observation, geodesy, climate change, geohazards, water cycle and other science related topics. I also like to meet new people from all around the world. I'm totally in love with space and photography.

Find out more about me and my interests at Lilja - A bouquet of stories about the Earth

APOD: 2006 August 7 - An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO: Mar 5, 2:37pm (3 reviews) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap06080...; Erupting Prominence

Credit: SOHO-EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA

The prominence, as sun spots and the solar cycle, is caused by the changing magnetic field. Normally the prominences keep the solar plasma (gas) captured to the surface of the sun. Every now and then there are eruptions like on this picture from a major eruption in 2002, close to sun spot maximum.

We are now at the start of a new solar cycle, we say last for about 11 years, and yesterday we saw another sun spot. We expect to see solar wind reaching the earth tomorrow 6th March.

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