JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski's research highlighted in "Popular Science" Magazine
Coronal loops on the sun are captured in ultraviolet light using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory
JILA Fellow and 勛圖厙 of Colorado physics professor Heather Lewandowski helped lead a group of more than 1,000 undergraduate students in a study looking at the temperatures of the Sun's corona. The corona, the outer layer, gets incredibly hot, and the study hoped to figure out why. Their research was featured in 泭revealing the creativity and ingenuity of undergraduate students in scientific research.
The question of why the suns corona is so much hotter than the surface of the sun is one of the main outstanding questions in solar physics, says Lewandowski in the article.
With their results published in the泭,泭the study allowed undergraduates to participate in scientific research, gaining skills and experience that would help their future careers.泭