chromosphere
noun
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
Spectators may also be able to see a region of the solar atmosphere called the chromosphere, which will appear as a thin, pink circle around the moon.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
The chromosphere, or part of the sun’s atmosphere, may glow in a thin pink circle around the moon during totality, while the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, or corona, will appear as white light.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere (the transition region) and the corona.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
The 4 to 5 percent that will remain visible is part of the chromosphere, or its lower atmosphere.
—Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
Four payloads for studying the sun will gaze at the star’s photosphere, its layer visible to us; the chromosphere, a thin layer of plasma on top of the photosphere; and the corona, the outermost layer of the sun that starts about 1,300 miles above the photosphere.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
Rising within the chromosphere, the relative force of the superheated plasma lessens quickly, but the magnetic fields stay relatively strong.
—Chris Wright, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
When viewed during a total solar eclipse, the red rim of the chromosphere is just visible to the naked eye.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
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Note: Term introduced by the English astronomer J. Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) in "Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun. No. II…Read November 19 and 26, 1868," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 159 for the year 1869, p. 430.
1868, in the meaning defined above
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