This object had an almost circular shape, and a light beam came out from its eastern part that crossed the sunspot to the south of the nucleus, producing a shadow on the penumbra that was lost in the large mass of
faculae surrounding the eastern extreme of the sunspot.»
Not exact matches
There is an excess of H and K emission in the
faculae which
surround sunspots, and epochs of sunspot maximum coincide with epochs of maximum H and K.
Sunspots are
surrounded by a rim called
faculae, and in this region the temperatures are actually higher than the average solar surface.