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granulation


granulation on the Sun
The mottled appearance of the surface of the Sun when seen at high spatial resolution; it is caused by hot gases rising from the solar interior. Granulation looks a bit like rice pudding, with individual bright "rice grains," known as granules, separated from each other by a connected network of dark paths called intergranular lanes.


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