December 7, 2007
Posted in Cosmos News
Unlocking the riddle of Sun’s heat
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Unlocking the riddle of Sun's heat
Friday, 7 December 2007 Agençe France-Presse
Clearer focus: A Japanese probe has taken images of the Sun that provide new evidence for waves thought to be heating the solar corona. The image shows an active region adjacent to a ‘coronal hole’, as pictured by the Hinode probe. A circle in the bottom indicates the relative size of the Earth. Image: NAOJ/JAXA/NASA/STFC/ESA