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Fire and Ice 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Bailey's Beads and solar prominences visible in this image.
Solar prominences are visible during this phase of the eclipse and appear as bright plumes of fire ejecting themselves off the surface of the Sun. This eclipse, they were very active. These are actually plasma material shooting into the Suns atmosphere, the pink color seen is fluorescing hydrogen gas, just in the right temperature and density to give us this pinkish color. They can reach near 500,000 miles long, and are part of the activity that contributes to the Northern Lights.
Bailey's Beads is a phenomenon that occurs as the Moon almost entirely covers the Sun, only allowing the sun to shine through the very edge of the craters of the Moon. Light is entirely blocked except for what spills through those craters on the edge, creating a prismatic string of beads effect.
Fire and Ice 2024 Total Solar Eclipse