coronal rain

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noun
Definitions
  • Cooled globs of condensed plasma that falls back onto a star's surface, after having been superheated and lofted into the corona.

Etymology

Compound from English corona (corona, optical phenomenon consisting of circles visible around a bright celestial object such as the Sun the Moon, crown-like circle of light appearing around the sun, crown, en, l, coronavirus) + English rain.

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rain

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