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ON the 7th of September, between half-past 12 and 2 P.M., there occurred an outburst of solar energy remarkable for its suddenness and violence. Just at noon the writer had been examining with the telespectroscope an enormous protuberance or hydrogen cloud on the eastern limb of the sun.
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YOUNG, C. An Explosion (?) on the Sun* . Nature 4, 488–489 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004488b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/004488b0