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The Sun is blanketed by spiking, ultra-hot jets of plasma created from electrically charged particles, and now scientists have figured out more about how these jets (or spicules) are created and driven up into the star's atmosphere.
These jets, or spicules, appear as thin grass-like plasma structures that constantly shoot up from the surface and are then brought down by gravity.
Scientists have unravelled the science behind the jets of plasma, the fourth state of matter consisting of electrically-charged particles that occur just everywhere in the sun's chromosphere, which is the atmospheric layer just above the Sun's ...