Check out this video on YouTube:
In
2012, an eruption on the sun's surface scored a solar weather hat
trick, racking up all three of the major phenomenon scientists observe: a
solar flare, a coronal mass ejection (CME), and coronal rain, "complex
moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines
that loop up into the sun's atmosphere."
What makes the show special is the coronal rain, charged plasma slowly dripping in fiery loops along the
sun's magnetic fields.
Note:
Though
the video seems to play as though in slow motion, it's actually quite
sped up, covering a nearly 22-hour period from 12:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. EDT
on July 19, 2012.
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