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In this chapter we recall some basic steps of how magnetic flux tubes were discovered and how they were viewed in their early years. During the decades after their discovery, flux tubes evolved from an interesting novelty into a founding element of solar magnetism. Today we know that the entire magnetic field of the Sun, from sunspots to coronal loops and solar wind, has a filamentary structure. We briefly discuss the universality of filamentary structures in universe.
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Ryutova, M. (2018). A Quick Look on Small-Scale Flux Tubes. In: Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96361-7_2
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