Video: Scorching Rain on the Sun

Image of Earth's Sun taken 2010 August 19 NASA's Solar Dynamic's Observatory (SDO).
(Sources: NASA, Wikipedia.org )

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory captures "coronal rain," a beautiful and mysterious phenomenon on the Sun.

A modest solar flare erupted on July 19, 2012, followed by a coronal mass ejection, sending solar wind flying out into interplanetary space. Not all the plasma managed to escape, though, and what happened next is stunning. For a full 21 hours following the flare, plasma rained back down onto the Sun, following and lighting up the invisible lines of magnetic field that dance chaotically on the Sun's surface.

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Source: Sky and Telescope Magazine.

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