filament

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Incandescent bulbs create illumination by running an electric current through a filament that heats it until it glows.

From Seattle Times

The old-fashioned arched windows look out on the Market’s famous clock, while the interior aesthetic is a familiar neo-industrial one — polished wood and riveted metal panels, filament light bulbs and a futuristically underlit coffee counter.

From Seattle Times

"I was surprised by how long and how narrow this filament is," said one of the authors, Xiaohui Fan, in a statement.

From Salon

In addition to measuring the BAO yardstick, Euclid’s spectroscopic survey can chronicle how gravity pulled clusters of galaxies into sheets and filaments over time, forming the cosmic web.

From Science Magazine

Editor’s Note: Yusef-Zadeh explains that these long, vertical filaments turned out to be made of synchrotron radiation, which is produced by particles moving at nearly the speed of light through a magnetic field.

From Scientific American