Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 26, 2014 #1 Share Posted June 26, 2014 When it rains, it pours… on the Sun Just like on Earth, the Sun has spells of bad weather, with high winds and showers of rain. But unlike the all-too-frequent storms of the UK and Ireland, rain on the Sun is made of electrically charged gas (plasma) and falls at around 200,000 kilometres an hour from the outer solar atmosphere, the corona, to the Sun's surface. And the thousands of droplets that make up a 'coronal rain' shower are themselves each as big as Ireland.Now a team of solar physicists, led by Dr Eamon Scullion of Trinity College Dublin, have pieced together an explanation for this intriguing phenomenon, with imagery that shows a 'waterfall' in the atmosphere of the Sun. Dr Scullion will present their work at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2014) in Portsmouth on Tuesday 24 June 2014. Read more... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted June 26, 2014 #2 Share Posted June 26, 2014 wow! just frikking wow! the numbers involved here are simply staggering!! . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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