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NASA IRIS Reports the First Ever Clear Images of Nanojets on the Sun – SciTechDaily

NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona In a paper published today (September 21, 2020) in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets — bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magneti…

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These images showing nanojets on the Sun were captured by NASA’s IRIS mission on Apr. 3, 2014. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona
In a paper published today (September 21, 2020) in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets — bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona — in a process that reveals the existence of …

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