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    The mystery of how the outer-atmosphere of the Sun can be hotter than its surface may have finally been cracked. Researchers have achieved a breakthrough by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale Alfvén waves in the Sun's corona - waves we've searched for since their prediction in 1942
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    The mystery of how the outer-atmosphere of the Sun can be hotter than its surface may have finally been cracked. Researchers have achieved a breakthrough by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona – waves we’ve searched for since their prediction in 1942


    The mystery of how the outer-atmosphere of the Sun can be hotter than its surface may have finally been cracked. Researchers have achieved a breakthrough by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona – waves we’ve searched for since their prediction in 1942

    https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/alfven-waves/

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    1. Danvideotech2385 on

      Isn’t steam hotter than boiling water? Or rather can’t it get hotter than boiling water since it’s more widely dispersed? If so I’d imagine the same principle applies to the sun’s atmosphere.