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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

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current	10:06, 4 October 2005	669×478 (114 KB)	Iantresman (Talk \| contribs)	(Filaments surrounding a solar flare, caused by the interaction of the plasma in the Sun's atmopshere with its magnetic field. Picture Credit: TRACE, NASA. [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040725.html Source])