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    A chromosphere ("sphere of color") is the second layer of a star's atmosphere, located above the photosphere and below the solar transition region and...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    known as solar prominences or filaments. The Sun's corona lies above the chromosphere and extends millions of kilometres into outer space. Coronal light is...
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    absorption lines. It is called the chromosphere from the Greek root chroma, meaning color, because the chromosphere is visible as a colored flash at the...
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    prominences contain much cooler plasma, similar in composition to that of the chromosphere. Prominences form over timescales of about a day and may persist in the...
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    known as a fibril or mottle, is a dynamic jet of plasma in the Sun's chromosphere about 300 km in diameter. They move upwards with speeds between 15 and...
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    magnetic field, lie in the photosphere. Above the photosphere lies the chromosphere. This part of the atmosphere first cools down and then starts to heat...
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  • with armor that enables survival in volcanic environments or even the chromosphere of a star for short periods of time. When a group of Autobots (and Chip...
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    main objectives of Aditya-L1 are: To observe the dynamics of the Sun's chromosphere and corona: To study chromospheric and coronal heating, the physics of...
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    W, Ayres T (1994). "New Light on the Heart of Darkness of the Solar Chromosphere" (PDF). Science. 263 (5143): 64–66. Bibcode:1994Sci...263...64S. doi:10...
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    called the photosphere. Above this layer is a thin region known as the chromosphere. This is surrounded by a transition region of rapidly increasing temperatures...
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    chromosphere (the Greek chrōma meaning "color") appears. Though the reddish hydrogen radiation is most visible to the unaided eye, the chromosphere also...
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    A plage /pleɪdʒ/ is a bright region in the Sun's chromosphere, typically found in and around active regions. Historically, they have been referred to as...
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    seen through filters. The Sun's faint corona will be visible, and the chromosphere, solar prominences, coronal streamers and possibly even a solar flare...
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    lowest level of the atmosphere, just above the photosphere, is the thin chromosphere region, where spicules appear and stellar flares begin. Above this is...
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    evidence of a hot chromosphere above the photosphere of red giants, where investigating the heating mechanisms for the chromospheres to form requires 3D...
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    molecules to the ionization of atoms. First he applied it to the solar chromosphere, then to stellar spectra. Harvard astronomer Cecilia Payne then demonstrated...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium. Janssen was born in...
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    features in the Sun's atmosphere, including solar prominences and the chromosphere. According to the Bohr model of the atom, electrons exist in quantized...
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    corona which is not radiated externally is conducted back towards the chromosphere along the arcs. In the transition region where the temperature is about...
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  • Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    yellow line with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun. The line was detected by French astronomer Jules Janssen...
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    Microturbulence Oscillations Radiation zone Atmosphere Photosphere Starspot Chromosphere Stellar corona Alfvén surface Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion...
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    and Edward Frankland, as it was first observed in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun. Helium makes up for about 25% of the Sun's mass. Helius is...
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    radiation. A simple thermal source is sunlight, the radiation emitted by the chromosphere of the Sun at around 6,000 K (5,730 °C; 10,340 °F). Solar radiation peaks...
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    illustration of the structure of the Sun Granules Sunspot Photosphere Chromosphere Convection zone Radiation zone Tachocline Solar core Solar corona Flare...
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