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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Popular Physics 2022-12-01 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Physicists have long known that the Sun's magnetic fields make its corona much hotter than the surface of the star itself. But how -- and why -- those fields transport and deposit their energy is still a mystery, as Philip G Judge explains

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@article{arxiv.2211.17098,
  title  = {The enduring mystery of the solar corona},
  author = {Philip G. Judge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.17098},
  year   = {2022}
}