Images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery (VIDEO)

New Jersey Institute of Technology

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With new images from New Jersey Institute of Technology's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), a team of researchers have revealed in groundbreaking, granular detail what appears to be a likely mechanism - jets of magnetized plasma known as spicules that spurt like geysers from the Sun's upper atmosphere into the corona.

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(Samanta et al. 2019, Science; Data courtesy of BBSO/GST and NASA/SDO)

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