Umbra
The dark, relatively cool central core of a sunspot, where the sunspot's magnetic field lines emerge nearly vertically from the surface.
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The dark, relatively cool central core of a sunspot, where the sunspot's magnetic field lines emerge nearly vertically from the surface.
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