April 05, 2019

Emily Mason, doctoral candidate, physics, was quoted in Phys.org about her findings of solar rain that lead to unexpected findings of solar heating and slow solar wind.

Mason, a graduate student at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., was searching for coronal rain: giant globs of plasma, or electrified gas, that drip from the Sun's outer atmosphere back to its surface. 

Read more on phys.org