Solar filaments or prominences – when observed at the solar limb, are long clouds of partially ionized plasma suspended above the Sun’s surface by strongly sheared magnetic structures, called filament channels, that can support the dense plasma against solar gravity. Filaments may form at various locations on the Sun, however, they are always found within preexisting filament channels above polarity inversion lines which separate areas of opposite magnetic polarity regions.
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005ASPC..346..177M
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.1635.pdf
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Outstanding. Let's go gather some ionized plasma Corina Marinescu
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