Sound waves escaping the sun s interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun s atmosphere which appears as a ruby red "ring of fire" around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to new research.
The detection of cool plasma before the tiny outbursts on the sun is helping researchers make connections between campfire flares and other solar eruptions.
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