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Loading contentA proposed solution to the coronal heating problem, put forward by Eugene Parker: the corona is heated by a vast number of tiny reconnection events — nanoflares — each far too small to see on its own, but collectively enough to keep the corona hot. It is one of several candidate mechanisms still being tested against observations.
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