Realigning magnetic fields may drive the sun’s spiky plasma tendrils
Solar spicules appear to dump heat into the corona
![solar spicules](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/111319_cc_sun-spicule_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Whiskery plasma jets, known as spicules, on the sun appear as dark, threadlike structures in this image, acquired at the Goode Solar Telescope in Big Bear, Calif.
T. Samanta, GST & SDO