A long loop of plasma erupted over the sun's north pole, creating a "vortex" that scientists cannot
The whole spectacle, which lasted about 8 hours, becameviral on Twitter. Tamita Skov, a researcher at the aerospace agency, released footage of the appearance and disappearance of the solar vortex. They were made by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
A long filament of plasma is an electrically chargedthe gas that makes up all stars. He "shot" from the surface of the Sun, creating a huge loop - a prominence. Structures of this kind can loop in space for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
NASA/ Solar Dynamics Observatory
However, the prominence observed by NASA inearly February, suddenly broke up, and then remained in the air for several hours, orbiting around the solar poles. Scientists are very puzzled by this strange phenomenon.
As Skov and other researchers noted, the resulting plasma cyclone resembled large loops of cold air over the Earth's poles in winter.