A spacecraft devoted to studies of the sun has spotted clouds of gas that seem to be headed the wrong way. The clouds are falling back toward the sun, against the rapidly outflowing streams of ionized gas known as the solar wind.
According to a new report, the Earth-orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has observed some 8,000 of these inflowing clouds.
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