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Sun-spots and Faculæ

Nature volume 54, page 317 (1896)Cite this article

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THE following account of the nature of sun-spots and of the faculæ commonly found associated with them, explains these phenomena by refraction through the sun's atmosphere on the supposition that the centre of a spot is the centre of a high-pressure area or anticyclone.

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  1. Observatorio Nacional, Cordoba, Argentine Republic

    JAMES RENTON

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RENTON, J. Sun-spots and Faculæ. Nature 54, 317 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054317a0

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