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Solar Wind

In Our Time: Science

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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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