superprominence

plural superprominences

1. rareastronomyAn exceedingly powerful, enormous solar prominence.

   Since high densities and low temperatures favor condensation the major condensation takes place in the superprominence regions.

   1977, Joseph A. Burns, Planetary Satellites, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 483

   2 more examples

   2003, Bernard Schutz, Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity (Chapter 8, Page 85: Gravity in the Sun: Keeping the Heat On)https://www.gravityfromthegroundup.org/pdf/photonsunburn.pdf It shows a superprominence, the large loop of hot gas streaming out of the Sun.

   in 1972 Alfvén and a colleague, Gustaf Arrhenius, developed a detailed model of solar system formation which uses the filaments "superprominences", they called them -- to transfer the angular momentum.

   2010, Eric Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened, A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 209