Discovering the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere

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Discovering the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere
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2018-07-25 - images.nasa.gov

Summary

Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface. Temperatures in the corona — the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere — spike upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, whi

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  • Source collection: NASA
  • License: Public Domain (US Government)
  • Category: Space

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