NASA's IRIS spots nanojets: Shining light on heating the solar corona
Published Date: 9/21/2020
Source: phys.org
In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, 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.