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!
