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Sunspot region 3394, Geoffrey Gilles

Sunspot region 3394

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Sunspot region 3394, Geoffrey Gilles

Sunspot region 3394

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Focus on the sunspot region 3394. This picture illustrates these temporary phenomena that appear on the Sun's photosphere and correspond to regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic flux that inhibit convection. All around, we can observe the so-called granules convection cells caused by the convection currents of plasma in the Sun's convective zone, directly below the photosphere.

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Sunspot region 3394, Geoffrey Gilles