Another problem is the public's interest in the spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Another space telescope is set to be launched tomorrow. As one might expect from an explosion that's been going on for five billion years, activity in the sun is complex. Our daystar is a bubbling, boiling heaving cauldron of thermonuclear energy. From its surface leaps an ever-changing flow of heat, light, and hot gases.
Amazing events happen in the corona.
The surface of the sun is a relatively cool 10,000 degrees. As hot gas is pushed from the surface by the sun's outflowing energy, those gases expand and get considerably hotter. As the gases push out from the lower corona to its outer layer, temperatures increase to as much as 16 million degrees. Immense bolts of particle energy, called solar flares, push out from the surface of the sun through the corona. When solar flares engulf Earth, satellite communication is often disrupted.