Enormous 'Plasma Waterfall' Discovered on Sun's Surface.

Astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau captured an image of a polar crown prominence (PCP), an enormous wall of plasma falling towards the solar surface at impossibly fast speeds after being ejected near the sun's south pole. The plasma wall rose 62,000 miles above the solar surface, as tall as eight Earths stacked on top of one another. PCPs occur near the sun's magnetic poles and are similar to normal solar prominences, but they often collapse back towards the sun because the magnetic fields near the poles are much stronger. The plasma within PCPs travels downwards at speeds of up to 22,370 mph, much faster than the magnetic fields should allow based on experts' calculations.