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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:59AM (#29566797)
> NASA says[1] the corona extends 5 million km, so 6.2 million km would be outside the corona.

The corona is not a perfect sphere. See the various pictures on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_corona - it's irregular.

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