{"id":12873,"date":"2023-07-07T06:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T00:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12873"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:56:52","slug":"solar-shooting-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/solar-shooting-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar shooting stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Solar shooting stars:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are massive <strong>clumps of plasma<\/strong> that plummet to the Sun&#8217;s surface at incredible speeds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These looks like a massive rain of fireballs that play a <strong>key role in heating up the corona<\/strong> which is the outermost part of the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers observed these solar shooting stars using the <strong>Solar Orbiter spacecraft<\/strong> of the <strong>European Space Agency.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is the first time such impacts have been spotted.<\/li>\n<li>These observations were made from a close distance of just 30 million miles from the sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>How are coronal rains formed on Sun?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Coronal rain which is plasma firework displays consisting of gas with temperatures exceeding two million degrees Fahrenheit.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of water, <strong>coronal rains form when localised temperature drops<\/strong>, causing solar plasma to condense into dense lumps.<\/li>\n<li>These lumps then fall to the cooler surface of the Sun, known as the photosphere, as fiery rain at speeds of up to 220,000 miles per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Significance of this observation<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This could help solve the mystery of why the corona, the outermost part of the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere, is hotter than the layers beneath it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Sun&#8217;s corona?<\/h3>\n<p>The Sun&#8217;s corona is the outermost layer of its atmosphere, extending millions of kilometers into space. It is a region of extremely hot and ionized gases that surround the Sun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/solar-shooting-stars-scientists-left-stunned-by-rain-of-fireballs-on-sun-612392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Solar shooting stars: Scientists left stunned by &#8216;rain of fireballs&#8217; on Sun<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar shooting stars are massive clumps of plasma that plummet to the Sun&#8217;s surface at incredible speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}