Solar Orbiter Closes in on Sun's Biggest Secret: Solving a 65-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery - SciTechDaily
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A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics have provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why the Sun’s atmosphere is so hot. The Sun’s atmosphere is called the corona. It consists of an e…