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