Gap Fill - The Sun - Level 2

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   astrophysicist      baking      Celsius      extreme      flares      life      mystery      solar      surface      temperature   

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The Parker Solar Probe is named after an . He spent his studying the Sun and its solar flares. He wanted to know why the are hotter than the Sun's surface. This is known as the "coronal heating problem". The temperature at the Sun's is 4,100ºC; while the of the corona's flares can reach 1.1 million degrees Celsius. Scientists also want to find out how winds originate. NASA said Parker has faced heat on its record-breaking fly-by. Temperatures reached a 980 degrees .

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