The Solar Corona is thousands of times hotter than the surface of the Sun, and we don't know why.
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The Coronal Heating Problem violates intuition: the outer solar atmosphere reaches millions of degrees while the surface is ~5,500°C. Solving this requires understanding magnetic reconnection and Alfvén wave dissipation mechanisms.
Citation ID: WS02086
Title: The Solar Corona is thousands of times hotter than the surface of the Sun, and we don't know why.
URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=2086