The surface of the Sun has a temperature at about 10,000 degree Fahrenheit, but the temperature in the corona is rising to millions of degrees. Although scientists have some ideas of what the temperature in the solar corona might be, there is no universal explanation yet.
Read the entire articleThe Alfvèn waves – now detected in the solar corona
01.01.2008
The surface of the Sun has a temperature at about 10,000 degree Fahrenheit, but the temperature in the corona is rising to millions of degrees. Although scientists have some ideas of what the temperature in the solar corona might be, there is no universal explanation yet.