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Solar Wind

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

The Corona at a Million Degrees

Eugene Parker: How does the sun possibly have a atmosphere? I'm still not quite sure how this beats gravity, though. He says there are two theories why an actual Eugene Parker has contributed in a key way to both of those theories. Do we know why the Sun's atmosphere is so hot? Well, these are these possibilities. And one of the reasons that we're sending spacecraft close to the Sun in the next few years is to try and understand what those mechanisms are.

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