Direct satellite observations of energy transfer between large and small space plasma scales contribute to our understanding of how matter in the Universe gets hot.
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Retinò, A. A journey through scales. Nature Phys 12, 1092–1093 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3976
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