Solar Rain Caught on Camera! High-Def Plasma Shower Images

Did it just rain on the Sun?! Scientists captured high-resolution footage of plasma rain,  cooling plasma that falls back to the solar surface along the star's magnetic field lines. This solar “rain” isn’t water, but cooling plasma illuminated by the power of adaptive optics—a technology that sharpens telescope images by correcting for Earth’s atmospheric distortion in real time.

👀 In this Short, we explore: What plasma rain really is How adaptive optics made this discovery possible Why the Sun’s corona is so tricky to observe

🔭 Get ready for the clearest view of the Sun's atmosphere we've ever had.