{"id":691150,"date":"2021-05-25T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=691150"},"modified":"2021-05-25T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:56:00","slug":"why-the-suns-atmosphere-is-hundreds-of-times-hotter-than-its-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=691150","title":{"rendered":"Why the sun&#039;s atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visible surface of the sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000\u00b0C. But a few thousand kilometers above it\u2014a small distance when we consider the size of the sun\u2014the solar atmosphere, also called the corona, is hundreds of times hotter, reaching a million degrees celsius or higher.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-sun-atmosphere-hundreds-hotter-surface.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Why the sun&#8217;s atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visible surface of the sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000\u00b0C. But a few thousand kilometers above it\u2014a small distance when we consider the size of the sun\u2014the solar&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}