The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun ... Above the inner core is the outer core ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

In order of depth, these layers include the solid, but flowing mantle, the liquid outer core and the solid iron outer core, which helps create Earth's protective magnetic field. The layers can ...