"The sun is starting to kick," says Jack Newton of Portal, Arizona, who photographed three prominences dancing along the limb of the sun on March 15th:

Although they resemble flames, prominences are not fire. They are clouds of hot gas held aloft by magnetic force fields. To see them, Newton used a Coronado telescope tuned to the red glow of solar hydrogen. Prominences typically last for a few days and, true to form, they are still dancing today.