In case you didn't already find space scary enough - weird stuff is now happening with the Sun 😬☀️ A chunk of our parent star has effectively broken away and formed a vortex above its north pole.
Footage of the vortex at the Sun’s north pole captured by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Observations from Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory have shown thaterupted from the sun’s surfaceScientists are saying they need more analysis to determine if this is exactly what happened but nevertheless, they’ve not ever seen anything quite like it before.
‘Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!’ wrote space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov on Twitter, alongside a timelapse showing the vortex in action. Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!
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