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IRIS Captures First-Ever Clear Images of Nanojets in Solar Corona | Astronomy – Sci-News.com
Solar astronomers using NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission have discovered very fast and bursty nanojets, the telltale signature of reconnection-based nanoflares resulting in coronal heating.
The solar corona, the outermost part of the Suns atmosphere, is shaped and mysteriously heated to millions of degrees by the magnetic field of our star. It has long been hypothesized that the heating results from a myriad of tiny magnetic energy outbursts called nanoflares, driven by the fundamental process of magnetic reconnection. Solar astronomers using NASAs Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission have now discovered very fast and bursty nanojets, the telltale signature of recon…
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