Sun's atmosphere is more enormous than we thought

Monday, June 30, 2014 - 00:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA scientists have calculated that the Sun's atmosphere extends some 8 million kilometres above its surface. That's 20 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

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