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Brandon Specktor

Space photo of the week: NASA spots enormous pink 'flames' during total solar eclipse. What are they?

Prominences leap out of the sun during the April 8 total solar eclipse. .

What it is: Towers of plasma (pink) erupting from the sun during a total solar eclipse

Where it is: About 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) above Dallas

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