
Solar Wind
In Our Time: Science
The Corona of the Sun
Eugene Parker is one of the key people in solar and stellar physics. He noticed that as a comet went around the sun, its tail changed direction like there was a wind blowing out from the sun. During eclipses, he could not explain light coming from the corona; it took him years to figure this out. The corona can be seen tracing out magnetic fields during an eclipse.
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