The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

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The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field don’t form at the sun’s surface, like some scientists thought, and can’t directly heat the sun’s corona

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By diving into the sun’s corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field as a cause of the corona’s searing temperatures, according to University of Michigan research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The sun’s crown-like atmosphere can be 200 times hotter than the sun’s surface, despite being farther away from the ultimate source of heat at the sun’s core. How the corona’s heat seemingly defies physics has stumped scientists for decades, yet it allows the sun’s hot soup of charged particles, or plasma, to move fast enough to escape the sun’s gravitational pull and engulf our solar system as the solar wind.

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..wonder if the Corona is interacting with dark energy?  ( just a wildly uninformed guess).  .but if the interior heat source is no longer thought to be the cause of the “ weirdly hot” corona … the cause must be external.???  
      ..makes me think of a fire…where the outer edge of the fire is the hottest area as it interacts with the exterior air/Oxygen.      I dunno, it will be interesting to hear from the physics guys in here.