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Solar eruptions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), are frequently observed on our Sun. Recent Kepler observations of superflares on G-type stars have implied that so called super-CMEs, possessing kinetic energies 10 times of the most…

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We report the smallest coronal jets ever observed in the quiet Sun with recent high resolution observations from the High Resolution Telescopes (HRI-EUV and HRI-Ly{\alpha}) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter. In…

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Solar Orbiter EUV observations reveal ubiquitous small-scale brightenings in the quiet-Sun low corona. We analyze the spatial and temporal dissipation scales of these events with a focus on the formation, evolution, and dissipation of…

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