{"id":3829,"date":"2020-11-03T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:47:45","slug":"nanojets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3829","title":{"rendered":"Nanojets"},"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\/oRKMYIAQSYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA dicit: <\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of understanding why the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface, and to help differentiate between a host of theories about what causes this heating, researchers turn to NASA&#8217;s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. IRIS was finely tuned with a high-resolution imager to zoom in on specific hard-to-see events on the Sun. <\/p>\n<p>A paper published in Nature on September 21, 2020, reports on the first ever clear images of nanojets \u2014 bright, thin lights that travel perpendicular to magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere called the corona \u2014 in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal heating candidates: nanoflares. <\/p>\n<p>Video credit: NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center\/Scientific Visualization Studio\/Scientist: Patrick Antolin (Northumbria University)\/Data Visualizer: Tom Bridgman (GST)\/Producer: Joy Ng (USRA)\/Writer: Susannah Darling (ADNET) <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pursuit of understanding why the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface, researchers turn to NASA&#8217;s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,111,463],"tags":[660],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-telescopes","category-videos","tag-iris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}