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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Shatters Theory on Sun’s Extremely Hot Corona


NASA's Parker Solar Probe found that S-shaped magnetic field bends are not responsible for the sun's corona's extreme heat. While these switchbacks appear in the solar wind, they are absent in the corona. This discovery challenges the idea that magnetic field collisions on the sun's surface creat

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