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

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The jets observed in the disc center of the Sun like short-lived thin filament structures seen at the blue shifted position in the spectrum since they are coming toward us as seen with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma, Spain). 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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Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma, Spain)

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