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Solar physics > Solar atmosphere > Solar corona > Solar coronal streamers

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Solar coronal streamers  

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  • A bright, narrow stream of particles traveling through the Sun's corona, visible in images taken with a coronagraph or during a total solar eclipse. Coronal streamers represent the most outwardly extended structures in the solar corona and result from the interaction between the solar slow wind and the large-scale magnetic field. (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1486

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