What Are Spicules

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Multiple Choice

What are spicules?

• A) small but rapidly erupting gas jets in the atmosphere of the Sun
• B) gas streams in binary star systems, where a neutron star is pulling material from its companion star
• C) streams of gas in interstellar clouds, heated by hot, massive stars
• D) filamentary networks of hot gas in supernova remnants

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Definitions:

ASIC

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Insolvency

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Winding Up

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