{"id":2644,"date":"2017-10-30T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2017-10-29T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T03:58:09","slug":"dynamic-jets-on-suns-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Jets on Sun&#8217;s Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQAtBNNt3es\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA dixit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun&#8217;s surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their grass-like abundance, scientists didn&#8217;t understand how they form. Now, for the first time, a computer simulation &#8212; so detailed it took a full year to run &#8212; shows how spicules form, helping scientists understand how spicules can break free of the sun&#8217;s surface and surge upward so quickly. <\/p>\n<p>This work relied upon high-cadence observations from NASA&#8217;s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope in La Palma. Together, the spacecraft and telescope peer into the lower layers of the sun&#8217;s atmosphere, known as the interface region, where spicules form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Music credit: &#8216;Solar Dust&#8217; by Laurent Levesque [SACEM], &#8216;Games Show Sphere 05&#8217; by Anselm Kreuzer [GEMA] from Killer Tracks<\/p>\n<p>Video credit: NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center\/CI Lab<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun&#8217;s surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their grass-like abundance, scientists didn&#8217;t understand how they form. Now, for the first time, a computer simulation &#8212; so detailed it took a full year to run &#8212; shows how spicules form, helping scientists understand how spicules can break free of the sun&#8217;s surface and surge upward so quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,1,463],"tags":[660,21],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-exploration","category-videos","tag-iris","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}