An amateur photographer captured a fiery "waterfall" on the surface of the Sun

Astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Pupo published photographs of a prominence on the surface of the Sun. "Wall" from

plasma rose to a height of about 100 thousand km above the surface of the Sun on March 9 and showered with “rain of fire.”

The image on the screen of my laptop was very impressive, it looked like hundreds of filaments of plasma were flowing down the wall. The sight left me speechless.

Eduardo Schaberger Pupo, astrophotographer

Prominence on the surface of the Sun. Photos: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau

Prominences are dense plasma structureswhich rise above the surface of the star by the forces of the magnetic field. Unlike the hot solar corona, such structures contain much colder plasma, similar in composition to the chromosphere, the outer shell of the Sun.

Structures such as Pupo's photographs are oftenobserved by scientists. But the exact mechanism for the formation of prominences is still unknown. According to spaceweather.com portal experts, filaments of plasma ejected upward paradoxically fall to the surface of the star faster than the surrounding magnetic forces allow.

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Cover image: NASA/SDO