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Physicists at the University of Sheffield have discovered that transition region quakes power the lower base of the Sun's corona. The quakes take the form of mega-tsunamis generated by plasma jets.

"We may now get a step closer to resolve one of the greatest puzzles of astrophysics—why the atmosphere of stars, like the Sun, is so much hotter than its surface," says Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics.

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