Finally, Understanding How the Sun's Spicules Are Made (5 of 6) (VIDEO)

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At the limb of the Sun, many jets shoot from the surface, as shown with the NASA IRIS spectrograph. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 23, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Martínez-Sykora at Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Petaluma, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvén waves.'

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NASA IRIS spectrograph

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