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'Focused' Solar Explosions Get Hotter Monday, April 07, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares - explosions in the atmosphere of the sun - get much hotter when they stay "focused". "A flare typically divides its energy between directly heating the solar atmosphere and accelerating particles," said Dr. Ryan Milligan of the Oak Ridge Association of Universities, Tennessee, who is stationed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (source: nasa.gov)
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