Sun's coldest region stores secret to heating million-degree corona sciencedaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencedaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists - how are temperatures in the star s upper atmosphere, or corona, hundreds of times hotter th
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have unveiled the discovery of intense wave energy from a relatively cool, dark and strongly magnetized plasma region on the Sun, capable of traversing the solar atmosphere and maintaining temperatures of a million degrees Kelvin inside the corona. Researchers say the finding is the latest key to unravelling a host of related mysteries pertaining to Earth’s nearest star.
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