This picture of a total solar eclipse was taken in Chile on November 3, 1994, by the white light coronal camera maintained by the High Altitude Observatory's eclipse team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The corona--the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere-is the home of prominences, immense clouds of glowing gas that erupt from the upper chromosphere. The outer region of the corona stretches far into space and consists of particles traveling slowly away from the Sun. The corona can only be seen during total solar eclipses.