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News articles tagged with 'chromosphere'

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STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun

— 25 May 2010 10:01 | Astronomy

Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun…

New insights about the origin of solar wind revealed

— 6 Dec 2007 21:37 | Astronomy

Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites…

Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire

— 31 May 2007 07:18 | Astronomy

Sound waves escaping the Sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power the chromosphere, a thin region of the suns atmosphere which appears as a ruby red ring of fire…

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