article_snippet: A team of scientists will use an array of instruments to look at the sun's corona .
article_snippet: ’s corona is one of the great mysteries of astronomy,’ said Dr Huw Morgan, a Reader at the Solar System Physics Group at Aberystwyth University, who is overseeing the team’s work from the UK.
article_snippet: 2,000,000°C (3,600,000°F) also added that studying ’s corona could help protect satellite-based communication systems from solar storms, which can be affected by coronal mass ejections - huge eruptions of material - from the sun.
highlights_snippet: A team of scientists will use an array of instruments to look at the sun's corona .
  
highlights_snippet: A team of scientists hope to work out why the sun's corona is 300 times hotter than the surface .
  