Video: Rain on the sun

Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 20:50 in Astronomy & Space

NASA has released pictures of a rare solar event. A storm on the sun shot out a huge flare of hot gas. Strong magnetic fields caused the gas to curl back and rain down on the surface. Scott Pelley reports.

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