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Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire

Science Centric (31 May 2007 07:18 GMT) - Sound waves escaping the Sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power the chromosphere, a thin region of the suns atmosphere which appears as a ruby red ring of fire around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to research funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These results were presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii…

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