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NASA Studies Eclipse for Solar Mystery
During the recent total solar eclipse over Europe, NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center aimed to study why the Sun’s corona is hotter than its visible surface. The mission captured crucial data on this long-standing astronomical mystery.
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During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at exactly th
2026-08-26 17:33 UTC