Solar Prominences

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2044r&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2044. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Prominences are clouds of relatively cool and dense gas in the solar atmosphere. These clouds change shape and come and go, but they do not drift like terrestrial clouds. Prominences are suspended above magnetic channels (see SOLAR FILAMENT CHANNELS) that change little from day to day. They are trapped in magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, but they churn slowly, at heights of up to 100 000 ...

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