Realigning magnetic fields may drive the sun’s spiky plasma tendrils
Solar spicules appear to dump heat into the corona

Whiskery plasma jets, known as spicules, on the sun appear as dark, threadlike structures in this image, acquired at the Goode Solar Telescope in Big Bear, Calif.
T. Samanta, GST & SDO
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