[Steely Tom]

It looks like the smoke is going down. How can that be?

[Paradox]

It looks like the smoke is going down. How can that be?

The picture is "sideways". That ain't no smoke either....

[Right Wing Assault]

It’s not really smoke. It’s superheated gas/plasma, mostly hydrogen. It falls for one reason because the sun’s gravitational field is almost 30 times as much as earth’s. And, the ‘atmosphere’ of the sun is pretty low density, so it gives little resistance to falling matter. (If you made chemical smoke in a vacuum on earth, it would fall as fast as a brick.)