Total Solar Eclipse from Iwo Jima, Japan

From NHK. The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. Wish I could have watched it live. Must be absolutely magical...At 5:23, there's a neat shot of what is called Prominence which is a giant cloud of incandescent ionized solar gas that forms for hours or days, is colder than the sun at about 10,000 degrees celcius vs a million degrees and floats above instead of falling into the sun. It's not known why. Sure is fantastic to see, especially when it's apparently 2~3 times the size of planet earth!