{"id":89329,"date":"2019-04-08T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-have-detected-structures-on-the-sun-that-lead-to-weird-plasma-rain"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:34:43","slug":"astronomers-have-detected-structures-on-the-sun-that-lead-to-weird-plasma-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-have-detected-structures-on-the-sun-that-lead-to-weird-plasma-rain","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Detected Structures on The Sun That Lead to Weird \u2018Plasma Rain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-detected-structures-on-the-sun-that-lead-to-weird-plasma-rain.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most enduring mysteries of the Sun: why the superheated surface of this great ball of glowing plasma is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-could-finally-have-the-answer-to-one-of-the-sun-s-most-perplexing-mysteries\">actually cooler than its outer atmosphere<\/a>, called the corona.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists now have a new explanation for this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-may-have-just-solved-one-of-the-sun-s-oldest-mysteries\">hotly debated topic<\/a>, and the answer was hidden in a strange solar phenomenon that\u2019s never been observed quite like this before: a deluge of plasma rain falling within newly discovered magnetic structures called Raining Null Point Topologies.<\/p>\n<p>On Earth, when it gets hot, water evaporates, turning into steam that lifts into the atmosphere, before cooling effectively reverses the process: water molecules condense inside clouds, which later drop rainfall over the land, oceans, and rivers below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/plasma-rain-observed-falling-on-the-sun-in-a-way-scientists-have-never-seen-before\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the most enduring mysteries of the Sun: why the superheated surface of this great ball of glowing plasma is actually cooler than its outer atmosphere, called the corona. Scientists now have a new explanation for this hotly debated topic, and the answer was hidden in a strange solar phenomenon that\u2019s never been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}