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Description: Filament erupting during a solar flare, seen at EUV wavelengths that show both emission and absorption (the filament has both). The plasma physics involved in this process remains ill-understood, but it certainly involves the Sun's magnetic field. Picture Credit: TRACE, NASA. Source
Title: Solar-filament
Credit: NASA
Author: NASA
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