SUN 3 (IMAGE)

Rice University

SUN 3

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Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission and analyzed by Shah Mohammad Bahauddin of the University of Colorado Boulder and his colleagues show new details of how low-lying loops of plasma are energized, and may also reveal how the hot corona is created.

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