Monday, 20 May 2013

Solar Rain

Sometimes I visit the NASA website just to see a few nice astronomical pictures, especially in the  Astronomy Picture of the Day archive. One can find nice things there, not only strictly about astronomy. Here, I picked a video about what would be the equivalent of rain on the Sun. The actual duration of the event is about 10 hours, so the website tells me, filmed in ultraviolet. Magnetically aligned plasma rain... that's something we don't have here on Earth. There is plenty of regular rain tho, enough to look out of my window...