00:03Currently, ESA Solar Orbiter is zipping around the Sun, and it recently captured these photos.
00:09They show tiny solar jets, or what experts call picoflares.
00:12There's just one thing, they've never been observed by human eyes before now.
00:17The jets tend to erupt from coronal holes, where upper atmospheric temperatures on the sun drop.
00:22From these areas, plasma is jettisoned, with each of these tiny picoflares being a couple of hundred miles long.
00:27Each one of them only lasts around 20 to 100 seconds, but the energy they release is gargantuan.
00:33In fact, solar physicist Lakshmi Pradeep Chittah told Nature,
00:37Each one releases the same amount of energy as 3,000 to 4,000 American households consume in an entire
00:43year.
00:44However, they're extremely weak compared to X-class flares, or the strongest flares the Sun releases.
00:49Those are a trillion times more powerful than picoflares.
00:53And because these picoflares were found all across this particular area,
00:56Experts believe they are literally occurring all over the Sun's surface.
01:00With the researchers saying,
01:01These tiny flares could be key to better understanding how the Sun constantly sends electrically charged particles in our direction.
01:08Explore your attention.
01:08Delen you without warning.
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