Photo: Sun's Mysterious Waves Found; May Be Solar Wind Source

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A large plume of gas known as a prominence shoots hundreds of thousands of miles out from the sun's surface at about six miles (ten kilometers) a second in this image from the Hinode spacecraft.

Images like these taken by the Japanese-led mission have definitively revealed mysterious magnetic waves that could be the source of solar wind, a suite of new studies reports.

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