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The Sun

Corona:

- hot, thin, large

solar “atmosphere”

- coronal holes are source

of the solar wind

Temperature: ~2 x 106 K

Density: ~1 x 10-14 g/cm3

Click here to read about the Solar corona

Click here to read about Solar coronal features

Click here to read about coronal mass ejections

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