coronal rain

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Etymology[edit]

corona +‎ rain. From being asterospheric coronal meteorological precipitation which occur in a star's corona.

Noun[edit]

coronal rain (plural coronal rains)

  1. (astronomy) Cooled globs of condensed plasma that falls back onto a star's surface, after having been superheated and lofted into the corona.