# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BUH40kshdhD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11735997-nasa-instagram
- **Posted:** 2017-05-15T18:35:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

At the edge of the sun, a large prominence and a small prominence began to shift, turn and fall apart in less than one day on May 8-9, 2017. Prominences are notoriously unstable. Competing magnetic forces pulled the plasma back and forth until they dissipated. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. The 18-second video clip is comprised of almost 600 frames being shown at 30 frames per second. 
Credit: NASA
#nasa #space #solar #sun #sdo #solarobservatory #spacecraft #magneticfield #particles #energy

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sun, energy, nasa, solarobservatory, space, particles, spacecraft, magneticfield, sdo, solar

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