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Why is the Sun's atmosphere much hotter than its surface

Washington: Scientists have found that small solar flare could help explain why the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, is so much hotter than the surface. The corona is hundreds to thousands of times hotter than the Sun’s visible surface, the photo-sphere. Because the Sun produces heat at its core, this runs counter to what one would […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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