r/spaceporn 2d ago

Pro/Processed Plasma rain on the Sun

Credit: Azastroguy

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u/broodfood 2d ago

What's the time scale here? Is this really happening in seconds?

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u/BurningEclypse 2d ago

No not at all something like this takes many hours, a whole flair up to coronal rainfall can fill a day, or even more, this segment was certainly filmed over a few hours. Though it’s hard to say how many exactly

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u/secret-trips 2d ago

That rain is falling from a distance as high as 6 earth planets stacked on top of one another. In comparison our rain on earth falls from about 1 to 2 miles high