A Leaky Solar Prominence (APOD: 2025 Aug 26) Video Credit & Copyright: Andrea Girones https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250826.html Explanation: What's hovering above the Sun? A solar prominence. A prominence is a crest of hot gas expelled from the Sun's surface that is held aloft by the Sun's magnetic field. Prominences can last for days, can suddenly explode into space, or just fall back to the Sun. What decides a prominence's fate is how the Sun's complex magnetic field changes -- the field's dire