facula

How To Use facula In A Sentence

• Its surface was mottled with great ugly spots, leprous with the scaly markings called faculae and granulations. Starchild Omnibus
• Toward the edges of the Sun, again, are very brilliant and highly luminous regions, which generally surround the spots, and have been termed _faculæ_ (_facula_, a little torch). Astronomy for Amateurs
• Wang et al. 2005 is based on solar considerations alone, using a flux transport model to simulate the long-term evolution of the closed flux that generates bright faculae. Archive 2009-10-01
• He considers it indeed "highly probable that the preparatory sign of a new spot is always a small, bright patch of facula. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
• The heavy line is the measured irradiance, the spikes up and down are the passage of faculae or sunspot groups across the solar disk. October 28th, 2009
• Although at solar maxima there are more sunspots on the Sun's surface, their dimming effect is more than offset by the appearance of bright patches on the Sun's disc called faculae -- Italian for "little torches '. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
• But large nuclei, large penumbrae, wrinkles, faculae, do they indicate an abundant luminous and calorific emission, as Herschel thought; that would be the result of his hypothesis on the existence of very active ascending currents, but direct experience seems to contradict it. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• Clearly the faculae on the sun are very small compared with sunspots and any attempt to numerically model the sun in its entirety is unlikely to be successful. IPCC and Solar Correlations « Climate Audit
• Although at solar maxima there are more sunspots on the Sun's surface, their dimming effect is more than offset by the appearance of bright patches on the Sun's disc called faculae - Italian for "little torches". WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• If the faculae loom above the surface, they could radiate light efficiently, thereby boosting the sun's overall brightness, especially during the solar maximum.