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2 unusual facts about Solar prominence


Flocculus

Flocculus (pl. flocculi) - A highly illuminated sector or region of a solar surface as seen through observation in monochrome light of a chosen spectral line, in visible, or hyperspectral wavelengths, sometimes associated with, or identified with Solar prominences.

Mervyn A. Ellison

The following year, he joined the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, where he continued studies of solar activity, including flares and prominences.


Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851

United Kingdom astronomers, Robert Grant and William Swan, and Austrian astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow observed this eclipse and determined that prominences are part of the Sun because the Moon is seen to cover and uncover them as it moves in front of the Sun.


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