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    In solar physics, a spicule, also known as a fibril or mottle, is a dynamic jet of plasma in the Sun's chromosphere about 300 km in diameter. They move...
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  • found in male nematodes (roundworms) Spicule (solar physics), jets of solar material from the Sun Spicule (glass manufacture), glass flakes formed in the...
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    interface for coronal heating. Solar cycle Solar spicule Solar granule Athay, R. Grant; Warwick, Constance S. (1961). "Indices of Solar Activity". In Landsberg...
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    Coronal hole Solar spicule "The Transition Region". Solar Physics, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA. Mariska, John (1993). The Solar Transition Region...
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    are sensitive to the radiation emitted by quiescent coronal loops. Solar spicule Solar prominence Coronal hole Loff, Sarah (2015-04-17). "Coronal Loops...
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    the surface of the sun, including solar spicules, coronal loops, and some coronal mass ejections, was considered a solar prominence. Today, due to a better...
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    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
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    "inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Outside the heliosphere, this solar plasma gives way to the interstellar plasma permeating...
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    Stellar corona (redirect from Solar corona)
    Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) and the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of the University of Oslo, a new class of spicules (TYPE...
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    activity. The most commonly identified feature in the solar chromosphere are spicules. Spicules rise to the top of the chromosphere and then sink back...
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  • Furthermore, some solar jets are classified as macrospicules due to their similarities with the much smaller chromospheric spicules. Solar jets are sometimes...
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    the center to about 0.2 of the solar radius (139,000 km; 86,000 mi). It is the hottest part of the Sun and of the Solar System. It has a density of 150...
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    part of the Sun, and not artifacts of the eclipse. He discovered solar spicules. However, his main area of interest was astronomical spectroscopy. He invented...
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    Moreton wave (redirect from Solar tsunami)
    band. Asteroseismology Gravity wave Helioseismology OSO 8 Solar prominence Solar spicule Solar transition region Phillips, Tony (November 24, 2009). "Monster...
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    Plage Spicule Moreton wave Solar corona Solar transition region Coronal hole Coronal loop Coronal mass ejection Solar prominence Helmet streamer Solar variation...
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    Solar Physics Information on the SST at the Institute for Solar Physics wiki SST APOD pictures of a sunspot, the Venus transit, spicules on the solar...
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    authoritatively that the sun is a star; discovered the existence of solar spicules and drew an early map of Mars Alessandro Serpieri (1823–1885) – priest...
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    atmosphere, just above the photosphere, is the thin chromosphere region, where spicules appear and stellar flares begin. Above this is the transition region, where...
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  • 50,000 km-long spicules may also play a part in accelerating the solar wind past the corona. Alfvén waves are routinely observed in solar wind, in particular...
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    their skeletons out of silica, which forms a unique lattice structure of spicules. The sponges are usually between 10 cm (3.9 in) and 30 cm (12 in) tall...
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    sequence stars below about 0.3 solar masses are entirely convective, meaning they do not have a radiative zone. From 0.3 to 1.2 solar masses, the region around...
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    is a forest of spicules poking out from the edge, so it is not possible to get parallel to such a rough surface. For most of the solar disk the degree...
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    of which is visible in the Sun as solar granulation. Low-mass main-sequence stars, such as red dwarfs below 0.35 solar masses, as well as pre-main sequence...
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    archenteron. Although there are numerous molecular differences between the "spicule-forming cells" of E. tribuloides and the primary mesencyhme cells of euechinoids...
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  • laid down c. 650 Ma – First Demosponges appear: form first skeletons of spicules made from protein spongin and silica – brightly coloured these colonial...
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    and ice spikes. iceberg ice accretion indicator ice crystal 1.  A minute spicule of ice that forms from water in the atmosphere at temperatures below the...
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  • ear of grain spica, spicate, spicose, spicosity, spicular, spiculate, spicule, spiculiform †spiculum spicul- spina spin- thorn infraspinate, infraspinatus...
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  • spike Latin spica spica, spicate, spicose, spicosity, spicular, spiculate, spicule, spiculiform spin- thorn Latin spina infraspinate, infraspinatus, interspinal...
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    glycoproteins. This may be calcified to form structures like shells, bones, and spicules, a framework upon which cells can move about and be reorganized during...
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  • Evershed effect (category Solar phenomena)
    different cross-sections of the coronal loops footpoints, the return of spicules, multiple flows, nanoflares, and thermal instabilities during chromospheric...
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