Solar prominences are large clouds of plasma (hot, energized gas) which lift off the surface of the Sun, and temporarily held in place by the Sun's strong magnetic fields.
Eventually, a prominence will either fall back to the surface or explode out into space.
This image shows the difference between "typical"- sized prominences and a "large" one.
For scale, a typical-size prominence is several time larger than Earth!
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