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The mystery of the solar corona is obvious enough. The vanishingly thin atmosphere of the sun -- the wispy stuff that can be glimpsed faintly during total solar eclipses -- simmers at 1 million°C, 200 times hotter than the "fire" beneath it. What gives? Researchers now believe they have caught the sun in the act of heating bits of itself to coronal temperatures and jetting those bits up into the corona.
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