Why Does the Sun s Corona Get So Hot? NASA Launches Telescope to Find Out

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Above the surface of the sun, plasma roiling in the star’s atmosphere does something that so far defies explanation, and seems to defy physics: It gets hotter as it moves farther out . [More]

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