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I came across this very nice video of Sun’s X-ray Jets on on NASA’s website…

Astronomers using Japan’s Hinode spacecraft have discovered that the sun is bristling with powerful “X-ray jets.” They spray out of the sun’s surface hundreds of times a day, launching blobs of hot gas as wide as North America at a top speed of two million miles per hour. These jets add significant mass to the solar wind and they may help explain a long-standing mystery of astrophysics: the superheating of the sun’s corona.

More info: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y20…