An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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coronal streamer
  درفشک ِ هورتاجی  
derafšak-e hurtâji
Fr.: grand jet coronal  

A bright, narrow stream of particles traveling through the Sun’s corona, visible in images taken with a coronagraph or during a total solar eclipse. Coronal streamers represent the most outwardly extended structures in the solar corona and result from the interaction between the solar slow wind and the large-scale magnetic field. → helmet streamer.

See also: → coronal; → streamer.