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The chromosphere (literally, `sphere of color`) is the second of the three main layers in the Sun`s atmosphere and is roughly 2,000 kilometers deep. It sits just above the photosphere and just below the solar transition region. The density of the chromosphere is very low, it being only 10−4 times that of the photosphere, the layer just below ......
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Layer outside the photosphere of the Sun
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• (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
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A reddish layer in the Sun's atmosphere, the transition between the photosphere and the corona.
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lowest layer of the Sun`s atmosphere, several thousand kilometres thick, above the bright photosphere and below the extremely tenuous corona. Named ... [4 related articles]
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A narrow, irregular region of a star's atmosphere that lies between its photosphere and its corona. The Sun's chromosphere starts from a temperature of about 6,000 K at the top of the photosphere. At about 500 km above the photosphere, there is a temperature minimum of about 4,300 K and, above thi...
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The part of the Sun's atmosphere that lies above the photosphere of the Sun.
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The layer between the photosphere and the corona in the atmosphere of the Sun, or any other star, mainly composed of excited hydrogen atoms.
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The layer of the solar atmosphere above the PHOTOSPHERE and beneath the transition region and the CORONA.
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Chro'mo·sphere noun [ Greek ... color + English
sphere .]
(Astron.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame. ...
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a layer in the Sun and many other starts just above the photosphere
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The part of the Sun's atmosphere just above the surface.
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The lower level of the solar atmosphere between the photosphere and the corona.
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n] - a gaseous layer of the sun`s atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun
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The layer of the solar atmosphere that is located above the photosphere and beneath the transition region and the corona. The chromosphere is hotter than the photosphere but not as hot as the corona.
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The layer of the solar atmosphere above the photosphere and beneath the transition region and the corona. It is seen during eclipses as a bright red ring around the Sun, and the term burning prairie has been used to describe it. See also: Sun.
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noun a gaseous layer of the sun`s atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun
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Layer of mostly hydrogen gas about 10,000 km/6,000 mi deep above the visible surface of the Sun (the photosphere). It appears pinkish red during eclipses of the Sun
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Part of the Sun's atmosphere, it is visible during a total solar eclipse.
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a scarlet, gaseous envelope surrounding the sun outside the photosphere, from which enormous quantities of hydrogen and other gases are erupted. · a gaseous envelope surrounding a star.
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