English Explanatory Dictionary

coronal rain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

coronal rain coronal rains

Etymology

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

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