Watch: Tornado swirling up to a height of 120,000 kilometres observed on the surface of the sun
What could be ‘the tallest tornado’ in the solar system was caught on camera from the Sun's north pole.
I spent 3 hours yesterday with my solar telescope pointed at a tall tornado-y looking thing on the sun. This 14-Earths-tall swirling column of plasma was raining moon-sized gobs of incandescent material on the sun. I can't imagine a more hellish place. pic.twitter.com/dewzNEAEJA
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) March 18, 2023
The tallest dust devil in the solar and system, and maybe the largest tornado ever recorded in human history. A height of around 120,000km! Composed entirely of solar plasma, heat and magnetism. Captured today by Nasa satellite SDO aia171 pic.twitter.com/qjQA8FnjK0
— Levandov (@blabla112345) March 18, 2023
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Chunk of the sun’s surface breaks off to whirl in a vortex around its north pole
