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Robert Lea

Solar Orbiter observes rapid, tiny jets on sun that may be the solar wind's power source

A close up of the sun in 2012 shows an extreme coronal hole

Solar scientists have spotted small-scale, short-lived jets of energy emerging from dark holes in the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, for the first time. 

These so-called "picojets" could be supplying both energy and matter in the form of plasma to solar winds, high-speed outflows of hot gas from the sun that can fill up interplanetary spaces. 

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