{ 2007 04 22 }

”Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun’s atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say”

From the BBC:

‘the coronal temperature is up to 300 times hotter than the Sun’s visible surface, or photosphere. And no one can explain why’

‘The coronal loops arch hundreds of thousands of kilometres above the Sun’s surface like huge fiery fountains, and are generated by the Sun’s magnetic field’

‘Solar explosions called micro-flares can release energy equivalent to millions of hydrogen bombs’.

Posted by John on Sunday, April 22nd, 2007, at 10:13 pm, and filed under Science.

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