Solar Prominence - March 30, 2010 (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

An erupting prominence observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 30, 2010. Credit: SDO/AIA // “We’ve seen solar prominences before—but never quite like this,“ says Alan Title of Lockheed Martin, principal investigator of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), the observatory’s main telescope array. “Some of my colleagues say they’ve learned new things about prominences just by watching this one movie.“ SDO is the first mission of NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program. The goal of LWS is