This happened 6 days ago, via Space.com (in reply to comments that a piece of the sun "broke off" on Feb. 9:
A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.
"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," space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov said on Twitter while sharing a video sequence taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showing the odd whirlwind. "Implications for understanding the sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!"
... and from Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... via Jackflashnyc...
6 comments:
Lovely, it pays to look up from our hand held glowing rectangles!
Very cool and see y'all, worth it to get up with the dawn. Thanks for the photos.
Wow!
Amazing !
Just breathtaking!
This happened 6 days ago, via Space.com (in reply to comments that a piece of the sun "broke off" on Feb. 9:
A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.
"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," space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov said on Twitter while sharing a video sequence taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showing the odd whirlwind. "Implications for understanding the sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!"
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