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Solar Structure Details

Target Name:  Sun
Produced by:  Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Copyright: See Below
Date Taken:  15 July 2002
Date Released: 25 January 2003

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Examples of new kinds of solar structures found in or near sunspots with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope on La Palma. Panels a, b, and c show small sunspots ("pores") that have thin dark lines around their edges - dubbed "hairs". The surrounding solar surface show dark lines we call "canals". Panel d shows penumbral filaments with dark cores and one of the filaments seems to be twisted. The tickmarks around the edge of the images show the scale. The distance between two ticks is 1000 km.

Credit Statement Accompanied With The Images

The following statement was taken from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences web page.
All images are free for publication. Please credit the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences unless personal credit information is stated for a particular image. Here is the name of the academy in a couple of languages: Swedish: Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. German: Die Königlich Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften. French: L'Académie Royale des Sciences de Sučde. Spanish: Real Academia de Ciencias de Suecia.

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