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 when hot plasma cools and condenses in strong magnetic fields and falls to the photosphere. It is usually associated with active regions.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References[edit]

^ Jauregui, Andres (21 February 2013). "Coronal Rain: Solar Flare Rains Fire On Sun In NASA VIDEO". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
^ Grossman, Lisa. "Video: Coronal Rain Shower Caught on Sun". wired.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
^ "NASA Video Shows Stunning Coronal Rainstorm on Sun". voanews.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
^ Shiga, David. "Sun's rain could explain why corona heat is insane". newscientist.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
^ O'NEILL, IAN. "The Sun's Coronal Rain Puzzle Solved". news.discovery.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
^ Antolin/Verwichte, P./ and E. (Erwin). "Transverse oscillations of loops with coronal rain observed by hinode/solar optical telescope". wrap.warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

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[huffingtonpost-1] Jauregui, Andres (21 February 2013). "Coronal Rain: Solar Flare Rains Fire On Sun In NASA VIDEO". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[wired-2] Grossman, Lisa. "Video: Coronal Rain Shower Caught on Sun". wired.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[voanews-3] "NASA Video Shows Stunning Coronal Rainstorm on Sun". voanews.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[newscientist-4] Shiga, David. "Sun's rain could explain why corona heat is insane". newscientist.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[news-discovery-5] O'NEILL, IAN. "The Sun's Coronal Rain Puzzle Solved". news.discovery.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[wrap-warwick-6] Antolin/Verwichte, P./ and E. (Erwin). "Transverse oscillations of loops with coronal rain observed by hinode/solar optical telescope". wrap.warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

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