Coronal Loops at the Solar Limb

This is a TRACE image of coronal loops over the eastern limb of the Sun, taken on November 6, 1999, at 02:30 UT, in the light of 171Å x-rays. The plasma here is roughly 1 million degrees K. Click on the image for a larger version (768×768, 107kB). I've removed the serious jpeg image compression artifacts from the original.