Finally, Understanding How the Sun's Spicules Are Made (2 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Finally, Understanding How the Sun's Spicules Are Made (2 of 6)

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Martínez-Sykora et al. report that interactions between the magnetic fields and partially ionized gas in the solar atmosphere cause spicules, long, tendril-like ejections, to spew outward. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 23, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Martínez-Sykora at Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Petaluma, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvén waves.'

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