Sun, and while it’s a phenomenon that’s baffling scientists, it also has them very excited.Space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov shared a video sequence to Twitter late last week that shows a huge filament of solar plasma breaking free from the Sun’s surface.“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,” she tweeted of the footage, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.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! pic.twitter.com/1SKhunaXvP— Dr.