New findings reveal the behavior of turbulence in the exceptionally hot solar corona
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 10:50
in Astronomy & Space
The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Astrophysicists are keen to learn why the corona is so hot, and scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed research that may advance the search.