The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered a multitude of tiny jets of material escaping from the sun’s outer atmosphere. Each jet lasts between 20 and 100 seconds, and expels plasma at around 100 km/s. These jets could be the long-sought-after source of the solar wind.
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Source: Phys.org