Prepared by: Mustafa Al-Zoubi
In a new video, the US space agency “NASA” captured a huge solar hurricane 14 times larger than the Earth’s swirls on the surface of the sun.
The tornado, made of plasma and heat, was 74,500 miles high and at a speed of 310,000 miles per hour.
The cosmic display was spotted by astrophotographer Apollo Lasky, who used NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory to create the video.
Lasky, from Illinois, said: “The hurricane has been circling the north pole of the sun for three days, throwing a huge cloud of magnetized gas into space.”
Solar hurricanes are caused by spiral magnetic structures.
Video shows a giant filament of plasma, or electrified gas, shooting out from the sun, spinning in a huge vortex.
Scientists indicate that the reason for this is due to the reversal of the sun’s magnetic field, which occurs once in each solar cycle.