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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5122.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5122. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Sun, Solar Atmosphere

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A long, dark absorption feature seen against the solar disk in monochromatic light (light of one particular wavelength). Filaments are clouds of gas, with temperatures in the range 5000 K to 10 000 K, and lengths ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of kilometers, which are suspended above the chromosphere by magnetic fields. They are normally located along the boundary between...

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