Fantastic Solar Videos

Here are fantastic videos of solar surface activity including developing prominences. If you look carefully, you can actually see how the plasma in the prominences is moving down toward the sun along magnetic field lines.

More on prominences.

http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/filaments.html

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/prominences.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/sun/prominences.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040725.html