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Goodness Gracious, Small Balls of Fire!

MAR 01, 1998

DOI: 10.1063/1.2833572

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It was only last year that “blinkers,rdquo; the latest addition to the rich lexicon of solar phenomenology, were discovered by SOHO’s Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS). Lasting a few minutes, they appear as Earth‐sized explosions—3000 or so pop off at the same time on the solar surface.

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