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• n  a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• filament
• strand

News & Articles

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• NASA's IRIS telescope offers first glimpse of sun's mysterious atmosphere
  ( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) As the telescope door opened on July 17, 2013, IRIS's single instrument began to observe the sun in exceptional detail. IRIS's first images showed a multitude of thin, fibril-like structures that have never been seen before, revealing enormous contrasts in density and temperature occur throughout this region even between neighboring loops that are only a few ...
  July 25, 2013 - EurekAlert!