: 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

We don’t know. That’s one of the things the Parker Solar Probe is investigating. I think maybe away from the sun’s surface the matter can move much faster in mostly one direction. The matter on the surface is mostly being held back and circulating in a turbulent flow. There’s some mechanism by which the temperature vastly increases when matter is propelled away from the sun.