NASA’s High-Flying Mission to Solve the Great Solar Mystery: The Million-Degree Coronal Heating Problem

Normally in physics, if you step away from a heat source like a campfire, the air gets cooler. But with the Sun, the exact opposite happens. The Sun’s visible surface is around 6,000°C. However, its thin outer atmosphere (the corona) jumps to an astonishing 1 to 3 million degrees Celsius. It completely defies everyday logic. … The post NASA’s High-Flying Mission to Solve the Great Solar Mystery:…