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The sun is a roiling, boiling ball of plasma, constantly churning and turning itself inside out as ropes of magnetic-field lines tangle and break at its surface to release tremendous amounts of ...
At any given time, about a million geysers of plasma dot the chromosphere, the sun's lower atmosphere.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute When we think of geysers, some might immediately think of the geysers at Yellowstone National Park that shoot water hundreds of feet into the air. Watching ...
It almost looks like a solar eclipse picture, but the dark circle is actually the night side of Enceladus, with the sunlight coming from the lower left. You can see quite a few geyser plumes ...
In the outer solar system, a moon of Saturn is erupting. Enceladus, a ball of ice 500 kilometers across, has more than 100 geysers erupting near its ...