superprominence
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From super- + prominence.
Noun
[edit]superprominence (plural superprominences)
- (astronomy, very rare) An exceedingly powerful, enormous solar prominence.
- 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)[2]
- It shows a superprominence, the large loop of hot gas streaming out of the Sun.
- 2010, Eric Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened, A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe[3], Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 209:
- 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.