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Soft matter and liquids

Liquid metal experiment sheds light on solar corona conundrum

10 Feb 2022 Isabelle Dumé
A solar flare
A plasma ejection during a solar flare. (Courtesy: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)
The centre of the Sun is incredibly hot, at 15 million degrees Celsius. Its surface is much cooler,

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