North Pole, where the massive plasma storm churned high up on the edge of space.Researchers in China, the U.K., the U.S. and Norway discovered the space hurricane by piecing together satellite data from 2014, according to their findings published in Nature Communications.The space hurricane happened in August of that year and lasted for about eight hours, but scientists only discovered it by looking back at satellite observations and other weather data.
The storm measured over 1,000 km wide, had several spiral arms, swirled in a counter-clockwise direction and rained electrons down on the Earth, according to their findings.