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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke1846m&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1846. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Stellar Models And Concepts

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During a total ECLIPSE of the Sun, when the Moon blocks out the intensely bright disk of the Sun, a faint white `halo' can be seen surrounding the Sun (see figure 1). This halo, officially called the Sun's `CORONA' (i.e. `crown'), exists mainly because there are electrons in the outer solar atmosphere: even though the disk of the Sun is hidden from direct view, the electrons scatter a fraction o...

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