Explanation A Prominence is combining of ionized gas captured in a magnetic arch rising up over the photosphere and chromosphere into the lower region of corona layer. The spectrum of a prominence is an excited and low-density gas. A prominence has an emission spectrum with a pink color. This is because of the emission in the three hydrogen Balmer lines, H-alpha, H-beta and H-gamma. Very huge amounts of energy are stored in arches of the magnetic fields...

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