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Science 20 March 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5921, p. 1551
DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5921.1551a

News of the Week

SOLAR PHYSICS:
Unseen Link May Solve the Mystery of the Sun's Superhot Corona

Richard A. Kerr

On page 1582 of this week's issue of Science, solar physicists watching the sun from the ground in unprecedented detail report observing energy piped upward toward the corona in the form of curious, twisty magnetic waves that have never before been detected on the sun.

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