How to Use chromosphere in a Sentence

chromosphere

noun
  • When viewed during a total solar eclipse, the red rim of the chromosphere is just visible to the naked eye.
    — Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The chromosphere and corona make up the sun's the solar atmosphere.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2019
  • This image shows the pink layer of the sun's chromosphere around the dark disk of the moon during totality.
    — Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The hot, outer layers of its atmosphere known as the chromosphere appeared to be missing.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun’s corona.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • The spicules surge thousands of miles high, passing through the chromosphere and into the sun’s corona before collapsing.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • Astronomers have finally captured the first images of the Sun’s chromosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Sep. 2022
  • One is that there are no signs of enhanced activity from various other elements that are thought to be present in the chromosphere of most stars.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • Spectators may also be able to see a region of the solar atmosphere called the chromosphere, which will appear as a thin, pink circle around the moon.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The setup is also equipped with a DayStar Quark (chromosphere) solar filter.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 May 2022
  • The 4 to 5 percent that will remain visible is part of the chromosphere, or its lower atmosphere.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Given the lower pressures in the chromosphere, these melting points would be appreciably lower inside the sun.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2012
  • The situation in the sun’s chromosphere would be orders of magnitude more difficult.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2012
  • The chromosphere and the transition region are separate layers.
    — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Many of these structures are visible in the chromosphere and corona, the outermost layers of the Sun's atmosphere.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2014
  • The telescope captured several new pictures of the Sun’s surface back in August, with the fiery chromosphere the main focus of them all.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere, the transition region and the corona.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere (the transition region) and the corona.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The image showcases the sun’s corona, its pink chromosphere and Baily’s beads, which are narrow openings of sunlight that shine through due to the moon’s rugged landscape.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • Along the very edge of the disappearing sun at the start and end of totality, an arc of ruby red or fuchsia associated with the solar chromosphere appeared.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The researchers used specific emissions from hydrogen and calcium ions as a marker for activity in the chromosphere.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • The density in the chromosphere is significantly lower than in the sun’s interior, so the magnetic fields are no longer suppressed and are able to straighten out.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • The chromosphere, or part of the sun’s atmosphere, may glow in a thin pink circle around the moon during totality, while the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, or corona, will appear as white light.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The chromosphere, or part of the sun’s atmosphere, may glow in a thin pink circle around the moon during totality, while the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, or corona, will appear as white light.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Indeed, along the very edge of the disappearing sun at the start and end of totality, an arc of ruby red or fuchsia associated with the solar chromosphere appeared.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But because Earth would cover more of the space surrounding the sun, lunar residents wouldn’t be able to see the chromosphere — the fiery region of high-energy flares ejecting from the sun’s surface.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Eclipses are said to begin when the moon crosses the sun’s disk, its photosphere, but through an H-alpha telescope, the observer sees the chromosphere, so the eclipse always starts slightly earlier.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The researchers consider a number of theoretical models, but the only one that produces enough energy at the chromosphere is one where loops of magnetic field connect the fields of the planet and the star.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • Studying the sun’s photosphere and chromosphere will allow researchers to examine how plasma flows and shifting magnetic fields interact to trigger surface eruptions.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Mysteriously, the corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere layers immediately below it.
    — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021

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