Coronal Rain

[Minskaya]

What you will be viewing here is a coronal mass ejection (CME) event. This eruption on the Sun was captured on July 19, 2012 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds and the video plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The capture-spectrum here is the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms. The arching charged plasma moves along looping magnetic lines at a temperature of 50,000 Kelvin. When one considers the gravitational mass of the Sun, the sheer power of the dynamical forces on display here is difficult to comprehend.

[bigross86]

Yeah, all of a sudden I feel really small and kinda insignificant in the grander scheme of things.....