STEREO's Different Perspectives

Each of these images was captured from a different perspective by each of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecrafts on Oct. 14, 2012. The image on the left, STEREO-B (behind), shows a dark vertical line slightly to the upper left of center. Only by looking at the image on the right, captured by STEREO-A (ahead) from a different direction, is this feature revealed to be a giant prominence of solar material bursting through the sun's atmosphere. Credit: NASA/STEREO

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