Why are the sun's outer rings so much hotter than the inner core?
Surrounding the sun is a layer of gas called the corona in plasma form with temperatures reaching over 3 million degrees.
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Surrounding the sun is a layer of gas called the corona in plasma form with temperatures reaching over 3 million degrees.
Scientists have just made a surprising new discovery: The Earth's inner core is not only changing its rotation speed, but may also be deforming.
The place long thought to be a boring iron block deep inside the Earth could be a very complex world, research from the University of Hawaii (USA) asserts.
For the first time, geologists have confirmed that the Earth's inner core - the innermost part of the Earth's heart - exists in a solid body.
Geologists found that the Earth's core contained a separate core structure, with crystals in another direction.