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March 20, 2023 | 18:43
A ‘solar tornado’ measuring 14 times the height of Earth has been caught tearing apart the sun’s surface in a stunning new video. The giant whirlpool, composed of plasma and heat, was discovered by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Friday before spreading out the next day.
Stunning footage of the solar storm nearly 10 times skywatchers’ height on the ground over the weekend.
A gigantic vortex, composed of incomprehensible hot plasma, captured in a cacophony of competing magnetic fields, has been seen by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Friday before disbanding the next day.
“I spent 3 hours yesterday with a solar telescope pointing at something high like Hurricane y” Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy he wrote in a tweet posted on Saturday.
“This 14-planetary high plasma wave rains moon-sized lumps of glowing material onto the sun. I can’t imagine a more terrible place.”
The Arizona astrophotographer accompanied his tweet with a stunning video of the storm, which is traveling more than 74,500 miles into space.
McCarthy’s perfectionism seems to have erased the piece afterward I apologize for being a “mistake”, We promise to publish clearer high-resolution content in the near future.
While another astrophotographer, Apollo Lasky, also captured this amazing moment shared on social media. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my years of watching the sun,” Lasky blurted out.
It is estimated that the storm is moving across the Sun at 310,000 miles per hour, and will reach temperatures of around 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit – much hotter than the surface temperature of the Sun, which is around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Twitter users were horrified to see a stunned McCarthy before he was pulled from the site someone shouted“,” How beautiful and beautiful is our Universe!
final Enough to mention“splendor!”
Solar storms are associated with solar eruptions, which arise from the turbulent interaction of magnetic field lines on the sun’s surface, releasing clouds of plasma as they rotate.
Despite their enormous size and intensity, solar storms are not uncommon, occurring several times a year.
In June last year, another solar storm was visible on the sun, albeit much smaller at 12,000 miles in diameter – about one-sixth the size of the storm imaged last weekend.
