August 9, 2016

A moment of the July 24, 2016 solar flare (Image NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Joy Ng, producer/IRIS/Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory)

NASA released the images captured by its IRIS space probe that show a kind of rain that fell on the Sun on July 24, 2016. This event occurred during a mid-level solar flare that led to the ejection of solar material, plasma at very high temperatures which then fell like rain and for this reason is called coronal rain or in more technical jargon post-flare loops.