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| The lowest layer of the Sun's athmosphere, approx: 400 km in thickness |
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| Above the photosphere, approx: 2500 km thickness amd and has a temp of nearly 30000K at the top. visiable at solar eclispe |
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| top layer of the Sun's athmosphere,extends several million kilometers from the top of the chromosphere and has a temperature rang of 1 million to 2 million K. |
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| violent eruptions of particles and radiation from the surface of the sun...Earth can be bombared with them |
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| Gases that flow outward from the corona at high speeds |
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| dark spots on the surface of the photosphere....but actually very bright |
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| which is an arc of gas that is ejected from the chromosphere, or gas that condenses in an inner corona and rains back on surface . Can reach up to 50000 K and can last for a few hours to a few months. |
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| combo of lightweight nuclei, such as hydrogen, into heavier nuclei |
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| Opposite of Fusion, splitting of heavy atomic into smaller, lighter atominc nuclei |
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visible light arranged according to wavelenghts
3 types: continous,emission, and absorption |
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