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"This false-color temperature map shows solar active region AR10923, observed close to center of the sun's disk. Blue regions indicate plasma near 10 million degrees K."
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Source | NASA Feature entitled "Tiny Flares Responsible for Outsized Heat of Sun's Atmosphere" at url= http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/nanoflares.html |
Author | Reale, et al. (2009) and Laura Layton of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. |
"Nanoflares are small, sudden bursts of heat and energy. "They occur within tiny strands that are bundled together to form a magnetic tube called a coronal loop," says Klimchuk. Coronal loops are the fundamental building blocks of the thin, translucent gas known as the sun's corona."
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