Sentences with phrase «degree outer atmosphere»
THE sun's million - degree outer atmosphere is the last place you would expect to find rain, yet a form of the stuff could help explain why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than you might expect.
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Coronal rain is made of dense knots of relatively cold gas, at tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees C, which pours down towards the sun's visible surface from the outer atmosphere.
Scientists hope that the probe will help solve some crucial mysteries about the sun: How can the corona (the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere) be millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface?
Most of this outer atmosphere has a temperature of around 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1,000 to 2,000 degrees cooler than the sun's surface temperature.
Along with many other stars, the Sun's outer atmosphere has an extremely high temperature, rising from a surface temperature of 4000 - 6000 K, through the chromosphere and transition region to several million degrees in the corona.