Telescope video shows part of the sun breaking off and forming a vortex, making scientists scratch their heads

[Vorastra]

Video shows part of the sun broke off and made a solar polar vortex

NASA's solar observatory caught a strange polar vortex on the sun, and now plasma is erupting from its north pole.

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Video from a NASA telescope shows part of the sun breaking off and swirling around its north pole.

A solar physicist called the polar vortex a "scientific curiosity" and hasn't seen anything like it.

More plasma is building up to liftoff at the sun's north pole, which is a once-a-decade event.

 

[Vorastra]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1621276153075109888

 

[RedViking]

Maybe it also wants to be on tiktok.

It is Vortexing, the latest trendy dance move.

 

[Gone Fishing]

Eskom load-shedding the sun?

 

[wbot]

But doesn't this happen all the time though?

 

[RedViking]

But doesn't this happen all the time though?

Once in a decade.

 

[RedViking]

Eskom load-shedding the sun?

No, it still burning. Next?

 

[Vorastra]

No, it still burning. Next?

Oke from the bush woke up this morning and chose no-nonsense seriousness for today.

 

[wbot]

Once in a decade.

I've seen plenty of vids and documentaries about the sun regularly doing these things. But maybe this one is different then, I dunno.

 

[kolaval]

pArt Of ThE SuN brEAkinG OfF

 

[sensus communis]

Maybe another climate change tax can save the sun

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Sounds like the ANC have reached the sun now...

 

[Grant]

Sounds like the ANC Eskom have reached the sun now...

 

[Grant]

/reaches for sunscreen

 

[Grant]

Sounds like the ANC have reached the sun now...

 

[Vrotappel]

Sounds like the ANC have reached the sun now...

ANC can break anything.

 

[RedViking]

Sounds like the ANC have reached the sun now...

Julle mense give the ANC way too much credit.

 

[RedViking]

Oke from the bush woke up this morning and chose no-nonsense seriousness for today.

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Matthew 24:29
‘the sun will be darkened,

/sips rooibos tea

 

[Vorastra]

Matthew 24:29
‘the sun will be darkened,

/sips rooibos tea

 

[Cosmik Debris]

pArt Of ThE SuN brEAkinG OfF

Clickbait with lots of hype:

A giant filament of plasma appears to have broken away from the sun and swirled around its north pole in a tornado-like vortex.

She added that the telescope footage appeared to show a solar prominence

it looks like part of the filament broke away and began whipping itself in a circle around our star's north pole.

"It's the first time I have seen something like it," Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Insider in an email. That doesn't necessarily mean it's never happened before, he added.

The filament that appeared to break off the solar surface and turn into a vortex is huge.

Though he hasn't seen the vortex before, McIntosh told Space.com that a solar prominence appears in the same spot — at 55 degrees latitude — during every 11-year solar cycle.

The vortex it seemed to create last week is equally mysterious.

On Friday morning, more plasma appeared to be swirling at the solar north pole.

Cool plasma building at the surface of the sun's pole appears to be getting ready to lift off, or erupt, into space. That happens about once per decade, McIntosh said.