Sun’s Super-Hot Shell Cooked by Plasma Jets (SPACE.com)
9:58pm GMT, Thursday, 6 January 2011
SPACE.com - Physicists who train their thoughts on the sun have long
been perplexed by why its outer atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the
surface. While theories abound, no direct observations have been made of the mysterious
processes that heat the sun’s atmosphere … until now.
Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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