{"id":172223,"date":"2023-09-17T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/esa-and-nasa-join-forces-to-answer-the-suns-heating-riddle"},"modified":"2023-09-17T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:26:53","slug":"esa-and-nasa-join-forces-to-answer-the-suns-heating-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/esa-and-nasa-join-forces-to-answer-the-suns-heating-riddle","title":{"rendered":"ESA and NASA join forces to answer the Sun\u2019s heating riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PbS0MSjw9N4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A 65-year old perplexing question may have finally been answered: Why is the Sun\u2019s atmosphere hotter than its surface?<\/p>\n<p>For over six decades, scientists have been baffled by a cosmic mystery of scorching proportions: Why is the Sun\u2019s atmosphere, known as the corona, hotter than its surface?<\/p>\n<p>This enigma contradicting conventional wisdom that things cool down the farther they are from a heat source has puzzled solar physicists until now, revealed the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year old perplexing question may have finally been answered: Why is the Sun\u2019s atmosphere hotter than its surface? For over six decades, scientists have been baffled by a cosmic mystery of scorching proportions: Why is the Sun\u2019s atmosphere, known as the corona, hotter than its surface? This enigma contradicting conventional wisdom that things cool [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}