A solar prominence is essentially
A) a cloud of hot gas lifting off the surface of the Sun.
B) an eruption of gas heated by the sudden recombination of opposite polarity parts of the Sun's magnetic field.
C) a plasma confined to a magnetic tube sticking out of the surface of the Sun.
D) an aurora occurring in the Sun's atmosphere instead of Earth's.
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