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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5130. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Sun, Solar Activity

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A plume of luminous gas in the solar atmosphere visible beyond the solar limb (the edge of the visible disk). Although their densities are about a hundred times greater than that of the surrounding coronal material, they are too low to enable them to emit a continuous white-light spectrum. Their visible light consists mainly of emission lines of hydrogen and ionized calcium and, except during tot...

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