New kink in sun’s strange corona

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Study pokes holes in leading theory that accounts for puzzling phenomenon By Clara Moskowitz
Here's a strange scenario: You move farther away from a fire, getting cooler and cooler, until suddenly you are burning up.
That's essentially what happens in the sun: Its outer layer, the corona, is inexplicably hot. A new study may complicate things further by poking holes in a leading theory that aims to account for the puzzling phenomenon.
Last year, astrophysicist Steve Tomczyk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and his colleagues asserted that corkscrew-shaped Alfven waves were converting the motion energy of the sun's roiling material into heat. …
SPF..what? 100?
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The_Toecutter · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 1727

The "Corona effect" in magnetism seems to explain this well enough. Even something as mundane as powerlines have to have insulators that consider this effect, to prevent the rubber insulation around the wire from corroding.
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virgincrude · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 424

Waving Goodbye To a Standard Model of The Sun

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