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Describe how temperature changes from the interior of the sun through its atmospheric layers

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The Sun's temperature, which reaches around 15 million degrees Celsius in its core, steadily decreases with distance from the core, falling to 6000°C at its 'surface'. ... Instead, it rises to about 10,000°C in the chromosphere, and exceeds a million degrees Celsius in the corona.

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