Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
IMAGE GALLERY
This 1991 photograph captures the brief moment of totality when the Sun’s faint corona is most easily observed. It is made up of several photographs from cameras with different settings that were later combined into one image. Credit: Steve Albers, Dennis di Cicco, ad Gary Emerson.
This image appears in the #58: Why is the Sun's Corona So Hot? Technology Through Time article.
Space Weather Fact
Solar flares can sometimes heat the solar surface to temperatures of 80 million °F - far hotter that the sun's core!
