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An HD1080 movie of the coronal rain (right limb of sun) in the 304 wavelength. || A moderate solar flare was emitted by the sun on July 19, 2012. At 5:58 UTC it peaked at M7.7 on the flare scale, which makes it fairly powerful, but still much weaker than X-class flares, which are the largest. What made this particular event so noteworthy was the associated activity in the sun by Lars Leonhard || An HD1080 movie of the opening part of the coronal rain (right limb of sun) in the 171 wavelength. || A 4Kx4K frame set of the coronal rain (right limb of sun) in the 304 wavelength. || A 4Kx4K frame set of the opening part of the coronal rain (right limb of sun) in the 171 wavelength.

On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced a moderately powerful solar flare and a dazzling magnetic display known as coronal rain. Hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface.Music: s AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds, and the movie plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 12:30 a.m. EDT to 10:00 p.m. EDT on July 19, 2012.Watch this video on YouTube.

Video showing the flare in 304 and 335 angstrom light. Still showing the flare in 304, 131 and 335 angstrom light. || The sun emitted a moderate solar flare on July 19, 2012, beginning at 1:13 AM EDT and peaking at 1:58 AM. Solar flares are gigantic bursts of radiation that cannot pass through Earth s peak activity. || Cropped image of the flare in 304 angstrom ultraviolet || Full disk 4k image of the flare in 304 angstrom ultraviolet || Cropped image of the flare in 131 angstrom ultraviolet || Full disk 4k image of the flare in 131 angstrom ultraviolet || Full disk 4k image of the flare in 335 angstrom ultraviolet