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The Sun’s atmosphere is much hotter than its surface.
Counter-intuitively, the Sun's outer atmosphere (corona) is about 300 times hotter than its surface, reaching temperatures over 1 million degrees Celsius. This 'coronal heating problem' has puzzled scientists for decades and may be related to magnetic waves or nanoflares.
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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been...
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...