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For three years at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, CU Boulder students enrolled in "Experimental Physics I" spent an estimated 56,000 hours analyzing the behavior of hundreds of solar flares. Their results could help astrophysicists understand how the sun's corona reaches temperatures of millions of degrees Fahrenheit.
Last month, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted, shattering two records: the volcanic plume reached greater heights than any other eruption ever recorded by satellite.