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Understanding the Survival of Cooler Solar Prominences in the Sun's Hot Atmosphere
Recent simulations have provided insights into how cooler plasma structures, known as prominences, manage to exist within the sun's extremely hot corona, which exceeds one million degrees.
Editorial Staff
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Updated 15 days ago
The sun's corona, with temperatures surpassing one million degrees, presents a challenging environment for cooler plasma structures.
These prominences, which maintain temperatures around 10,000 degrees, are frequently observed within the corona.
Recent research has utilized simulations to better understand the dynamics that allow these cooler structures to survive in such a hot atmosphere.