The sun as a star (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

The sun as a star

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(Foreground) The time evolution of the total brightness of various solar emissions as a group of sunspots rotated across the surface of the Sun. (Background) Images of the Sun taken in the different kinds of emissions when the group of sunspots was near the middle of the Sun.

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