Rain is a common phenomenon on Earth. There is a similar phenomenon on the Sun, called coronal rain. It is related to the coronal heating and magnetic field, and plays a fundamental role in the mass ...

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A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...

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A rather new adaptive optics system dubbed Cona has just opened a new window into the mysterious world of the Sun's corona, delivering images of unprecedented clarity. This groundbreaking technology, ...

The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions, and large ...

For years, the concept of rain on the Sun puzzled scientists. Unlike Earth’s rainfall, which involves water droplets condensing and falling, the Sun experiences solar or coronal rain, where dense ...

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Coronal rain forms when hotter plasma in the Sun’s corona cools down and becomes denser. Like raindrops on Earth, coronal rain is pulled down to the surface by gravity. Because the plasma is ...

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion. This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...