Unraveling the mysteries of the Solar Corona: New results from Chandrayaan-2 Solar X-ray Monitor
Unraveling the mysteries of the Solar Corona chandrayaan 2 Our Sun, being the primary source of energy for our solar system has a significant influence on our lives, and has always instilled a curiosity in humankind.. Though we have a fairly good understanding of the origin of energy and other various aspects of the Sun, several potentially life-changing phenomena still remain a mystery. Being the nearest star, understanding the Sun also allows us to learn about other distant stars better Some of these mysteries are related to the hot outer atmosphere of the Sun, known as ‘corona’, which emits profusely in ultra-violet and X-ray wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. We know that the corona consists of ionized gas at temperatures exceeding one million Kelvin, which is much higher than photospheric temperature of 6000 K, the visible surface temperature of the Sun. However, this observation is against the natural expectation that the temperatures should reduce as we go a...