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The Sun, the most luminous celestial object as viewed from Earth, was the first target for space experiments when such possibilities opened up. It is convenient to distinguish between the quasi-permanent and slowly changing solar features, for which incidental rocket observations suffice, and the rapidly changing, transient phenomena, which need satellite monitoring. In the first category are objects such as the photosphere, including the fairly slowly changing features, like centres of activity, the basic features of the chromosphere and of the coronal regions. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections come into the second category.
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de Jager, C. (2001). Early solar space research. In: Bleeker, J.A.M., Geiss, J., Huber, M.C.E. (eds) The Century of Space Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0320-9_8
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