According to the Daily Mail of November 4, astronomer Kevin Reardon captured an astonishing image showing the fiery jets of fast-moving superheated gas that constantly burst from the solar surface. The twisting tubes, known as spicules, are around 300 miles in diameter and spurt upwards from the sun at supersonic speeds of 45,000mph。
据英国《每日邮报》4日报道，意大利天文学家凯文-里尔登最新拍摄到一张太阳表面照片，照片上快速移动的火热炽热气体流持续从太阳表面喷射。据了解，这些扭曲的管状气体喷射流叫做“穗状体”，直径为300英里(约48万米)，从太阳表面以45000英里/小时的超音速喷射。