It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion.

This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its secret: quickly shifting flows of elements such as iron, silicon, and magnesium.

In a poetic, scientific twist, these new findings come courtesy of researchers at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawai'i, from the chain of sunny, volcano-forged islands that have their own distinct rainfall patterns .

But does it really rain on the Sun? Yes, and no. There are some similarities to rain on Earth, in that coronal rain consists of cool, dense blobs falling from the Sun's corona , the outermost layer of its atmosphere, down to its surface.

However, rain on the Sun is made

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