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Solar Orbiter Captures Incredible Footage of Tiny Jets Near the Sun's South Pole

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The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter first discovered the tiny jets flashing on the surface of the Sun in 2023 .

Follow-up observations have revealed them as the source of the two main forms of solar wind, fast and slow.

Fast solar wind originates from dark patches in the Sun 's atmosphere, called coronal holes, or regions where the sun's magnetic field does not turn back down into the Sun but rather travels outward into the solar system.

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