Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9184
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    The Sun showing spots, faculae, chromosphere, and prominences

    Date
    1893
    Creator - Organisation
    Cassell & Co, Lithographers
    Object type
    Library reference
    26347
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 227mm
    width (print): 146mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    The Sun showing spots, faculae, chromosphere, and prominences. Illustration from The story of the Sun, by Robert Stawell Ball (London, 1893).

    Print from an original drawing by by Léopold Trouvelot of Harvard University Observatory.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Ireland
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