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Faculae
Faculae Fac"u*l[ae], n. pl. [L., pl. of facula a little torch.] (Astron.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. --Newcomb.

Meaning of Faculaes from wikipedia

- 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...
- Solar faculae are bright spots in the photosphere that form in the canyons between solar granules, short-lived convection cells several thousand kilometers...
- 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...
- Several bright surface features (also known as faculae) were discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn spacecraft in 2015. The brightest cluster...
- 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...
- Kenichi Fujimori (born 1934), an amateur astronomer who observes sunspots, faculae and prominences. A formal observer designated by the Sunspot Index Data...
- cultures of the Far North (all current names come from Norse mythology). Faculae (bright spots) on Callisto are named after characters related to frost...
- Photosphere Supergranulation Granule Faculae Sunspot Ellerman bomb Chromosphere Plage ****ule Moreton wave Corona Transition region Coronal hole Coronal...
- magnetically driven solar phenomena follow the solar cycle, including sunspots, faculae/plage, network, and coronal m**** ejections. The Sun's apparent surface...
- differences remain in irradiance and the modeled influences of sunspots and faculae. Disagreement among overlapping observations indicates unresolved drifts...