Recent advances in plasma turbulence theory have led to a new way of explaining the heating of the solar corona and many of the observed features of the solar wind.
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Chen, C.H.K. A new way for turbulence to heat the corona. Nat Astron 6, 637–638 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01716-w
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