On December 18-19, 2005 the Sun produced a nicely elongated plume of gases that appeared and erupted over a period of 11 hours. We call these eruptive prominences. In these images we are observing the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light in the 304 Angstrom wavelength - the material imaged is actually ionized helium at about 60,000 C, not far above the surface of the Sun. But of course the elongated plume reaches far beyond the Sun, several hundred thousand miles or about 35 times the size of the Ea