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Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface
The observations, beamed back by the European Space Agency probe, reveal feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma and also capture eruptions and showers of relatively cooler material falling to the surface. The footage was recorded on 27 September 2023 by the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument, when the spacecraft was roughly a third of the Earth’s distance from the sun. The $1.3bn (£1bn) mission was launched in 2020 and next year will begin to climb out of the planetary plane to provide the first glimpses of the sun’s uncharted north and south poles.
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