It Rains on the Sun, and Now We Know How (and Why)

It Rains on the Sun, and Now We Know How (and Why)

It sounds odd, but it’s true: it rains on the sun. It rains two million-degree plasma. This solar rain falls in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, when hot plasma cools, condenses, and falls back to the surface. This isn’t a discovery. Scientists have known about it for years. They just never worked out the mechanics of it all. As detailed in their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers at the University of Hawa…