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Nature 396, 114-115 (12 November 1998) | doi:10.1038/24044

Solar physics:  The Sun at small scales

John H. Thomas1

The Sun is a unique laboratory for studying particular astrophysical processes, such as the interaction of thermal convection with a magnetic field. But many important phenomena in the solar atmosphere are thought to occur on length scales smaller than the resolution limit of current solar telescopes (about 0.

  1. John H. Thomas is in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
    e-mail: Email: thomas@astro.me.rochester.edu