Our sun (and other stars) produces something we call the solar wind. These are streams of charged particles that could theoretically be used to power spacecraft through solar sails.
We now know how those winds are produced. They're made by tiny little picoflare jets...very, very small solar flares...that are produced by coronal holes (darker/colder regions of the sun). This might help us understand more about how auroras happen.
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