Physicists Made a Hot Plasma Doughnut to Study Solar Wind

Despite a reputation for bestowing tans and warming beaches, the sun is not a soothing place. The middle layer of its churning atmosphere, which reaches temperatures of more than ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit, burps out torrents of charged particles, called plasma. They’re jerked around by the star’s magnetic field, curving into violent jets that lash …

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