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The Sun is, of course, the only star we can see in detail and the recent space missions and advances in ground based telescopes means that we can now analyse it in more detail than ever before. Looking at smaller lengthscales and with higher time and spectral resolution, it has become clear that there are many phenomena that are still not clearly understood.
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The SOHO/LASCO data used here are produced by a consortium of the Naval Research Laboratory (USA), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie (Germany), Laboratoire d´Astronomie (France) and the University of Birmingham (UK). SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, TRACE, is a mission of the Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, and part of the NASA Small Explorer programme.
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Hood, A.W. (2010). Coronal Heating. In: Garcia, P., Ferreira, J. (eds) Jets from Young Stars IV. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02289-0_4
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