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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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It turns out that APOD and I were right in the first place.
It turns out that what is considered the Sun is a greater area than just what LOOKS like the Sun. The prominence is defined as extending just past the chronosphere. The chronosphere is defined as 10000km out between the photosphere and the corona. The corona is the extension of plasma and radiation well above the sun's actual "sea level". |
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