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Letter: Too hot to handle

Published 29 October 2014

From Bill Robinson

Discussing waffle-like grids of matter in neutron stars (11 October, p 11), Hal Hodson mentions that they occurred when a simulated star was “a million times hotter than the sun”.

Our star has a complex structure with many different temperatures. Do you mean the photosphere, the coronasphere or the core?
Slough, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2993 published 1 November 2014

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