NASA's Solar Observation Mission Discovers Than Sun's Atmosphere is Larger Than Previously Observed

NASA's solar observation mission, Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), has managed to map the vast atmosphere of solar particles that surround the sun which plays host to magnetic fields, solar flares and the rise and fall of gigantic columns of materials. Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the ...

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