video: 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.' view more
Credit: NASA IRIS spectrograph