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The Sun and Its Missing Colors

Image Credit: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF

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A rainbow of the Sun's colors is shown from deep red on the upper left to deep blue on the lower right. Some horizontal lines have gaps that appear dark where some colors are missing.

APOD: 2023 June 11 – The Sun and Its Missing Colors

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Mark Darbyshire
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Mark Darbyshire
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Nice! I especially like this line: “Today, the majority of spectral absorption lines have been identified - but not all.” It links to ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005…

The Solar Chemical Composition

We review our current knowledge of the solar chemical composition as determined from photospheric absorption lines.
NASA/ADS

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