Examples of chromosphere in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web On a recent visit, Tundup clicked open a file on a computer and pointed around a red stubbled image of the sun’s chromosphere. — Raghu Karnad, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2020 She and her colleagues scoured data from 2,700 nearby sunlike stars and found that 39 appeared to be missing their chromospheres. — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2019 The hot, outer layers of its atmosphere known as the chromosphere appeared to be missing. — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2019 The chromosphere and corona make up the sun's the solar atmosphere. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2019 At any given moment, part of the sun's atmosphere, known as the chromosphere, is filled with up to 10 million spicules that usually last under 10 minutes. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019 Mariona Badenas, 25, of Spain, walked past, heading for the observatory, where a special telescope allows her to look at the sun’s chromosphere, or second layer of atmosphere. — David Kelly, latimes.com, 23 June 2019 But because Earth would cover more of the space surrounding the sun, lunar residents wouldn’t be able to see the chromosphere — the fiery region of high-energy flares ejecting from the sun’s surface. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun’s corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017

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History and Etymology for chromosphere

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.

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