Coronal rain

A movie of the coronal rain (right limb of sun) in the 304 Å wavelength. The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 4:30 UTC on July 19th to 2:00 UTC on July 20th, a period of 21 hours and 30 minutes.

Coronal rain is a phenomenon that occurs in the sun's corona. It occurs when hot plasma in the corona cools and condenses in strong magnetic fields, usually associated with regions that produce solar flares. The plasma is attracted to the magnetic fields where it condenses and slowly falls back to the solar surface.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Jauregui, Andres. "Coronal Rain: Solar Flare Rains Fire On Sun In NASA VIDEO". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Grossman, Lisa. "Video: Coronal Rain Shower Caught on Sun". wired.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "NASA Video Shows Stunning Coronal Rainstorm on Sun". voanews.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  4. ↑ Shiga, David. "Sun's rain could explain why corona heat is insane". newscientist.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  5. ↑ O'NEILL, IAN. "The Sun's Coronal Rain Puzzle Solved". news.discovery.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Antolin/Verwichte, P./ and E. (Erwin). "Transverse oscillations of loops with coronal rain observed by hinode/solar optical telescope". wrap.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

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