Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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You know, for how often we see the sun, there’s kind of a lot we don’t know about it. We know it’s powered by nuclear fusion, it’s 92.96 million miles away, and it’s over a million times bigger than the Earth by volume. But there’s more to it than that. Like, why is its corona so hot? How does it make solar wind? Luckily, NASA is hard at work answering at least some of these questions.

Read the full story here: discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/video-the-sun-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-hot

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