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Letter: Editor's reply to "Too hot to handle"

Published 29 October 2014

• The researchers report a temperature of 1.16 × 1010 kelvin: two million times our sun’s surface temperature of 5778 kelvin. For the purposes of the story, “a million times” conveyed “really very hot”.

Issue no. 2993 published 1 November 2014

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