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superprominence en · NOUN

Etymology

From super- + prominence.

Meanings

1. (rare) An exceedingly powerful, enormous solar prominence.
   • Since high densities and low temperatures favor condensation the major condensation takes place in the superprominence regions. 1977, Joseph A. Burns, Planetary Satellites, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 483:
   • 2003, Bernard Schutz, Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity (Chapter 8, Page 85: Gravity in the Sun: Keeping the Heat On)https://www.gravityfromthegroundup.org/pdf/photonsunburn.pdf It shows a superprominence, the large loop of hot gas streaming out of the Sun.
   • in 1972 Alfvén and a colleague, Gustaf Arrhenius, developed a detailed model of solar system formation which uses the filaments "superprominences", they called them -- to transfer the angular momentum. 2010, Eric Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened, A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 209:

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Relateds

superflare · coronal mass ejection · solar flare · solar prominence