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There are colors missing from the sun – and we still can't fully explain why

One of the best visualizations ever produced of the spectrum of light from our glorious Sun reveals some mysterious holes in its array of colors. Most of the thousands of dark Fraunhofer lines in the ...
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Some colors are missing from the sun, and nobody knows why

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...
Nature

The Fraunhofer Lines in the Spectrum of the Corona

IN some of the preliminary reports of the observations made during the last eclipse, undue importance appears to have been attached to the supposed absence of the Fraunhofer lines from the spectrum of ...

Are colours disappearing from the Sun’s Light? Here is what's really happening

Scientists have discovered missing colours in the Sun’s light spectrum. Hundreds of dark absorption lines remain unexplained, hinting towards hidden processes in our nearest star’s mysterious ...
Nature

Our Astronomical Column

ORIGIN OF GROUP G OF THE SOLR SPECTRUM.—In a preliminary note presented at the June meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, it was announced by Messrs. Newall, Baxandall, and Butler that the group ...