In breaking news, the sun is hot. But they way it is hot has confused scientists for decades. Bryan speaks to Dr Jonathan Squire of the Department of Physics at The University of Otago who has teamed up with colleagues from Princeton and Oxford and solved a key part of one of the greatest unanswered questions in astrophysics - why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface?
This NASA image obtained June 27, 2015 shows The sun as it emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M7.9-class, peaking at 4:16 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2015. Photo: AFP
