The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase.
We were hoping for something like this to happen. For a brief moment yesterday, the Sun waved to us from afar, telling us that it’s in the midst of a vibrant and dynamic phase of its 11-year cycle when solar eruptions and other phenomena are at their peak and more likely to occur. Nope, it wasn’t Baily ’s Beads, those speckles of light peeking through the Moon’s jagged edges.
If you were fortunate enough to witness yesterday’s eclipse from within the path of totality, you likely saw these prominences, including a particularly bright red speck at the Sun’s bottom region, in addition to smaller beads appearing along its left and right sides. Astrophotographers managed to visualize the prominence, revealing its loop-like structure, but to observers on the ground, these features appeared as unusually bright red dots along the perimeter.
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