The scale of a solar prominence

Woooo

Hey @grok explain Solar Prominence like you are sir David Attenborough

Picture, if you will, the Sun, a colossal orb of fire, its surface alive with restless energy. Here, great arches of plasma rise—solar prominences, sculpted by invisible magnetic forces. These radiant loops, stretching over 800,000 kilometers, dwarf our Earth, a mere speck at 12,700 kilometers wide. Composed of charged hydrogen and helium, they glow red against the cosmic void, yet appear as dark filaments against the Sun’s blazing disk. Some endure for months, others erupt, hurling plasma into space, stirring auroras or troubling our satellites. Their formation, a dance of magnetic fields, remains a mystery, studied yet not fully unraveled, a testament to the Sun’s untamed grandeur.

This is mesmerizing🤩

Sorry, I measue things in "soccer fields".

After conquering Mars, we need to make a Cybertruck pass through one of those rings and return to us.

Nice

Jeez sure glad we aren’t that close to it

Explains the heat wave currently

🌅 Solar prominences are large, bright, and cool loops or arches of ionized gas (plasma) that extend from the Sun's surface into its corona. They are anchored to the Sun's surface and can extend for thousands of kilometers into space. When viewed against the bright solar disk, they appear as dark filaments.