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When viewed against the background of space (off-limb), they are referred to as spicules; when viewed against the Sun's surface (on-disk), they are referred to as fibrils or mottles.
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in the Sun's surface, sound waves with a period of about five minutes that causes the Sun's surface to rise and fall at several hundred meters per second (see
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they appear elongated (if seen on the disk, they are known as "mottles" or "fibrils"). They are usually associated with regions of high
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and last a few minutes each before falling back to the solar atmosphere. They were discovered in 1877 by
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about 300 km in diameter. They move upwards with speeds between 15 and 110 km/s from the
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Bose, Souvik; Jayant Joshi; Vasco Henriques; Luc Rouppe van der Voort (24 March 2021).
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Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows
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Spicules near the solar limb. They appear as dark "hairs" above the solar surface.
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Quantifying Spicules, Tiago M. D. Pereira, Bart De Pontieu, and Mats Carlsson,
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Spicules: Jets on the Sun (2 November 2008)
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There are about 3,000,000 active spicules at any one time on the
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Freedman, Roger A.; Kaufmann III, William J. (2008).
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solar physics
Sun
chromosphere
photosphere
Angelo Secchi
solar limb
magnetic flux
mass flux
solar wind
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