The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured extreme ultraviolet images of the Sun.
These images show the presence of numerous small-scale jets within a coronal hole.
These jets are referred to as "picoflare" jets.
Researchers suggest that these picoflare jets could provide energy and plasma to the solar wind.
Solar wind is a continuous flow of charged particles emitted from the Sun's corona and is part of space weather within the heliosphere.
Coronal holes are believed to be potential source regions of solar wind.
However, the exact process of how solar wind emerges from these coronal holes is still not fully understood.
The findings are part of a study published in the journal Science.
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