Meteorite-like fireballs spotted in the solar corona | Ski.News

This image, taken with ESA's Solar Orbiter on 1 April 2022, shows a partial section of the Sun with gas at 1 million degrees;  the red paths correspond to some of the rain tracks analyzed by Antolin et al.  Image credit: Patrick Antolin / ESA / Solar Orbiter / EUI / HRI.

Coronal rain is the most dramatic manifestation of cooling in the solar corona. It corresponds to cold, dense clumps of plasma appearing on a time scale of minutes in the corona, which preferentially fall towards the solar surface along coronal rings. Now, solar astronomers using ESA’s Solar Orbiter have observed a never-before-seen fireball phenomenon occurring … Read more