{"id":1063,"date":"2013-03-11T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2013-03-11T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:36:53","slug":"coronal-rain-falls-fearsome-hot-upon-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Coronal Rain falls fearsome hot upon the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sdo\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/a> in space recorded this awesome event on the sun last July: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sdo\/news\/coronal-rain.html\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun &#8211; NASA &#8211; Feb.20.13<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oI9YReLbuvg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eruptive events on the Sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere, the corona.<\/p>\n<p>On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced all three. A moderately powerful solar flare exploded on the Sun&#8217;s lower right hand limb, sending out light and radiation. Next came a CME, which shot off to the right out into space. And then, the Sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays &#8212; a phenomenon known as coronal rain.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the next day, hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, themselves, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms, which highlights material at a temperature of about 50,000 Kelvin. This plasma acts as a tracer, helping scientists watch the dance of magnetic fields on the Sun, outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface.<\/p>\n<p>The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory&#8217;s AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds, and the movie plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 12:30 a.m. EDT to 10:00 p.m. EDT on July 19, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA SDO<br \/>\nMusic: &#8220;Thunderbolt&#8221; by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory in space recorded this awesome event on the sun last July: NASA&#8217;s SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun &#8211; NASA &#8211; Feb.20.13 From the caption: Eruptive events on the Sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coronal Rain falls fearsome hot upon the Sun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-media","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-h9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7992,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7992","url_meta":{"origin":1063,"position":0},"title":"Video: NASA&#8217;s IRIS observes giant solar eruption","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun's corona courtesy of NASA's\u00a0Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)\u00a0: A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Multiple media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Multiple media","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/SuAjao9e51U\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14624,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14624","url_meta":{"origin":1063,"position":1},"title":"Large sunspot erupts in a big flare and coronal mass ejection","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Spaceweather.com reports on a big solar flare today: After days of suspenseful quiet, huge sunspot AR2665 finally erupted on July 14th (0209 UT), producing a powerful and long-lasting\u00a0M2-class\u00a0solar flare. 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