ScienceScienceAlertScientists Simulated Solar Explosions in The Lab - And May Have Solved One of The Sun's Biggest Mysteries
Chinese researchers have recreated solar plasma conditions in a lab and may have found a key clue to why the Sun's outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface.
Move away from a fire, and you expect to feel cooler.
Scientists in China used powerful lasers to simulate conditions on the Sun and observed a process that could help explain the corona's extreme heat.
The experiment showed how magnetic fields in plasma can reconnect and release energy as heat, a possible trigger for the tiny solar flares scientists call nanoflares.
The Sun's outer atmosphere reaches over a million degrees Celsius despite its surface sitting at around 5,500 degrees, and this research offers a credible mechanism for that long-standing mystery.
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