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But the Sun doesn't really end there. The Sun holds onto its atmosphere, just like the Earth, and it's a whopper. "Once material leaves the corona at supersonic speeds, it becomes the solar wind ...
The sun’s atmosphere does many of the same things for us, only on a much bigger level. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ...
This article was originally published with the title “ The Earth in the Sun's Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...