Several scientists from the NASA they were completely baffled following material broke off the sun’s surface and created a tornado-like swirl around its north pole.
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“Material from a northern prominence has just broken away from the main filament and is now circling in a huge polar vortex around our star’s north pole. The implications for understanding the atmospheric dynamics of the Sun above 55° here cannot be overstated,” the forecaster explained via his social media.
Other filament rippers have been observed in recent years, but never one like this. For his part, solar physicist Scott McIntosh, deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, said researchers aren’t sure what causes such a unique event.
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“It is very curious. There is a big why question around you. Why does it only move towards the pole once and then it disappears and then it returns, by magic, three or four years later in the exact same region”, pointed out the solar physicist.
The scientists’ theory
Several specialists in the field consider that it probably has something to do with the magnetic field of the sun. However, the rest remains a mystery due to humanity’s limited view of its star.
In fact, scientists at the NASA they can only see the sun from the “ecliptic plane” or the geometric plane that contains Earth’s orbit.
The experts observed solar projections quite frequently, such as the solar flares last year that threatened to affect the Earth.