- Look up facula or
faculae in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Facula (pl.
faculae) is a
bright spot on the
surface of a
planet or a star. It may refer...
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Solar faculae are
bright spots in the
photosphere that form in the
canyons between solar granules, short-lived
convection cells several thousand kilometers...
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Several bright surface features (also
known as
faculae) were
discovered on the
dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn
spacecraft in 2015. The
brightest cluster...
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fossae and are
named after works of architecture;
bright spots are
called faculae and are
named after the word
snake in
various languages. See also list...
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deities of wisdom.
Faculae (bright spots) are
named after islands on
Earth that are not
politically independent.
Groups of
faculae are
named after archipelagos...
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magnetically driven solar phenomena follow the
solar cycle,
including sunspots,
faculae/plage, network, and
coronal m**** ejections. The Sun's
apparent surface...
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Slang Faculae is a
bright region on the
surface of Mercury,
located at 24.5° N, 179.3° W. It was
named by the IAU in 2018.
Slang is the
Afrikaans word...
- in
contrast to dark flocculi, and as
chromospheric faculae, in
contrast to
photospheric faculae. The term
plage is
often believed to be
poetically taken...
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cultures of the Far
North (all
current names come from
Norse mythology).
Faculae (bright spots) on
Callisto are
named after characters related to frost...
- its east,
Vinalia Faculae.
Occator possesses a pit 9–10 km wide,
partially filled by a
central dome. The dome post-dates the
faculae and is
likely due...
