Hotspots in fountains on the sun’s surface help explain coronal heating mystery

Friday, January 7, 2011 - 09:50 in Astronomy & Space

GREENBELT, Md. -- Observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese satellite Hinode show that some gas in the giant, fountain-like jets in the sun's atmosphere known as...

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