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Plasma Jets Pump Heat into the Sun’s Sizzling Corona

11:28am GMT, Saturday, 8 January 2011

It is a question that has plagued solar physicists for decades: Why is the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere, the region farthest from the heat-producing core, hotter than both the lower atmosphere and the sun’s surface? [More]



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