Picoflare jets UPSC NOTE

  The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured extreme ultraviolet images of the Sun. These images show the presence of numerous small-scale j...

 

• The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured extreme ultraviolet images of the Sun.

• These images show the presence of numerous small-scale jets within a coronal hole.

• These jets are referred to as "picoflare" jets.

• Researchers suggest that these picoflare jets could provide energy and plasma to the solar wind.

• Solar wind is a continuous flow of charged particles emitted from the Sun's corona and is part of space weather within the heliosphere.

• Coronal holes are believed to be potential source regions of solar wind.

• However, the exact process of how solar wind emerges from these coronal holes is still not fully understood.

• The findings are part of a study published in the journal Science.