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chromosphere
The chromosphere is a layer of the Sun's atmosphere located above the photosphere and below the corona. It is characterized by a reddish glow as seen during solar eclipses and is the region where solar filaments and prominences are observed.
Source: eclipse2017.nasa.gov
APODs including "chromosphere"
A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
02/09/2024
Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun
15/06/2024
Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
19/11/2023
Perihelion Sun 2023
14/01/2023
A Partial Eclipse of an Active Sun
Video
02/11/2022
A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun
13/09/2022
A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse
28/06/2021
Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
04/05/2021
Half Sun with Prominence
02/11/2020
The Sun Rotating
Video
19/08/2020
The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
07/09/2017
A Fleeting Double Eclipse of the Sun
28/08/2017
A Transit of Mercury
12/05/2016
The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
12/03/2016
Fibrils Flower on the Sun
17/02/2015
An Extremely Long Filament on the Sun
10/02/2015
Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun
22/11/2014
The Sun Rotating
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12/03/2014
Sun and Prominence
04/03/2014
The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
15/11/2013
Solar Eclipse from Uganda
08/11/2013
Blue Sun Bursting
20/05/2013
Angry Sun Erupting
14/03/2012
Reinvigorated Sun and Prominence
23/03/2010
Blue Sun Bristling
04/11/2009
Mercury and the Chromosphere
10/11/2006
Sunspot Metamorphosis: From Bottom to Top
16/02/2005
Venus and the Chromosphere
11/06/2004
Sunspot Stack
19/04/2001
Helios Helium
20/01/2001