: Why do they say the area around the sun is hotter than the surface itself, it doesn’t make any sense.

Question

How can the empty space around the sun be millions of degrees hot and the surface only thousands ? it doesn’t make any sense.

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Answer 1

At the surface of the sun, the magnetic field lines look like many loops rising up out of the surface into the atmosphere — and these loops are changing all the time. If the loops touch each other they can cause sudden explosions of enormous amounts of energy that heat up the atmosphere