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transition region
A thin and very irregular layer of the Sun's atmosphere, a few hundred kilometers deep, that lies between the chromosphere and the corona. Within the temperature climbs steeply from about 20,000 K in the chromosphere to over 1,000,000 K at the base of the corona.
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