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Plasma Jets are Suspect in Solar Mystery

*Scientists take new look at solar corona* 

One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.

Now scientists believe they have discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona: jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun’s surface. (more…)

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