The Solar Orbiter mission has captured images of tiny jets of material releasing into space as they escape from the sun’s hot outer atmosphere.
The Solar Orbiter mission has discovered jets of material rapidly releasing from the sun’s outer atmosphere. Astronomers believe these jets could be the source of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that continuously flows from the sun across the solar system. The jets of charged particles, called plasma, last between 20 and 100 seconds each and move at about 223,694 miles per hour .
The sun’s magnetic field is so massive that it stretches beyond Pluto, providing a pathway for solar wind to travel directly across the solar system. But the remaining question that scientists have been puzzling over was how the charged particles were released in the first place. Solar Orbiter’s observations captured a coronal hole containing tiny individual jets at the south pole.
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