In 1817, the German Physicist Joseph Fraunhofer discovered certain lines where missing from the Sun's spectrum. The dark bands are now referred to as 'Fraunhofer's Lines'. The full Solar Spectrum looks something like this:
When viewing the sun in H-alpha,
the sun looks like THIS: To see how the Sun looked like in white light at the same time, go here For some H-alpha movies, go here. |
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