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Solar Wind

In Our Time: Science

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The Corona: A Million Degrees

The corona is a million degrees, but it has different types of regions. On top of sunspots there's where the magnetic field of the sun pokes out from the sun. And we have called active regions, and that's where these flares that Andrew mentioned happened. We have two main components, that's a source of fast solo wind.

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