NASA's IRIS spots nanojets: Shining light on heating the solar corona

Researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets — bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona — in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal heating candidates: nanoflares.


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Source: ScienceDaily