Total solar eclipse. Red prominences seen around the Moon's disc during a total solar eclipse. Prominences are huge ejections of gas from the surface

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Total solar eclipse. Red prominences seen around the Moon's disc during a total solar eclipse. Prominences are huge ejections of gas from the surface from the Sun. They may extend tens of thousands of kilometres from the Sun's surface. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. This was the eclipse on the 11th August 1999, photographed from Turkey.

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Keywords: 11/8/99, astronomy, cosmology, eclipse, prominence, prominences, science, solar, sun, total