What's the Brightest Spot in the Solar System?

Did you know that during the day, the surface of the Sun is about 5,778 Kelvin (K) in temperature?

But did you also know that the hottest part of the Sun is actually the corona, which is about 1-2 million Kelvin (K) in temperature?

That's hotter than a thousand solar flares!

Want to learn more about this cosmic heatwave? Click here!

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