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Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...
The Nuclear Furnace at the Sun's Heart The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million ...
For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its surface. A new study led by Northumbria University physicist Richard ...
An eighty-year scientific quest has culminated in a breakthrough discovery that could finally solve the decades-old mystery of why the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is drastically hotter than ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yeimy J. Rivera, Smithsonian Institution; Rosa Tatiana Niembro Hernández, Smithsonian ...