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The bright ring around the sun is called the halo. A halo can be found around any object with light like the moon or sun.

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What is the name of the bright ring around the sun?

The corona is the outside layer of the sun's atmosphere, and it extends for several million kilometres from the photosphere and chromosphere. It is visible most clearly during a solar eclipse.During certain weather conditions, a halo is visible as a bright ring around the sun, but this is due to atmospheric phenomena.


What is causing the ring around the sun today 1 November 2010?

This is a sun dog. Is an atmospheric phenomenon that creates bright spots of light in the sky, often on a luminous ring or halo on either side of the sun.


What is the red hot ring around the center of the sun called?

The hot ring that surrounds the sun is called the corona. The corona is an aura of plasma which is also found around other celestial bodies.


What is a ring around the sun created by ice crystals called?

vapor


What is a bright area on the surface of the sun called?

A bright area on the surface of the sun is called a facula.


What is the bright object in the sun that the earth revolves around?

The bright object the Earth revolves around IS the Sun.


When was Ring Around the Sun created?

Ring Around the Sun was created in 1940-03.


What are bright spot on the sun called?

Faculae.


What does sun mean on a ring?

In folklore, a ring (often called a halo) seen around the sun or the moon means precipitation (usually rain) is coming. For more details :http://www.theweddingbandco.com


What is the name of the rings around the sun?

Our sun, Sol, does not have rings around it like planets such as Saturn or Jupiter. However, the halo-like ring of light can be seen extending from it is called the corona.


How is a solar eclipse bright?

A partial eclipse doesn't hide all the sun's surface. An annular eclipse leaves a ring shape of bright surface all round. A full eclipse doesn't hide the sun's corona which is still quite bright.


What causes the ring around the sun or moon?

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