Written by Amira Shehata
Thursday, March 23, 2023 01:00 AM
I picked up NASA agency A huge “solar hurricane” on the star’s surface is 14 times larger than Earth’s swirls. The hurricane, made of plasma and heat, reached more than 74,500 miles in height and moved at 310,000 miles per hour. The cosmic display was spotted by astrophotographer Apollo Lasky, who Use images from the Dynamics Observatory solar energy NASA.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, Lasky, from Illinois, said that the hurricane had been wrapping around the north pole of the sun for three days, and threw a huge cloud of magnetized gas into space.
Solar tornadoes are caused by spiral-shaped magnetic structures that rise from the sun and root to the solar surface at both ends.
When a column of plasma, known as a prominence, shoots up inside this structure, it is directed along its own spiral magnetic field, causing the plasma to spin and form a tornado.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years of watching the sun,” Lasky said, adding, “It never stops… amazing.”
Solar hurricane snapshot
The sun has undergone strange behavior recently, a piece of its north pole has been separated, and a video clip shows a giant filament of plasma, or electrified gas, erupting from the sun, separating and then spinning in a “massive polar vortex”.
While baffling astronomers, they speculate that the event has something to do with a reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field that happens once per solar cycle.
NASA describes solar filaments as clouds of charged particles that float above the sun, linked to them by magnetic forces, and these appear in the form of elongated and uneven filaments emanating from the surface of the sun.