‘never seen anything like it’

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by Andrew Court

March 20, 2023 | 6:43 p.m

Stunning footage of a solar hurricane measuring 14 times as high as skywatchers on the ground over the weekend.

The giant vortex, composed of incomprehensibly hot plasma, captured in a frenzy of bouts of competing magnetic fields, has been spotted by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). on Friday before dispersing the next day.

“I spent 3 hours yesterday with a solar telescope pointing at something high up like Hurricane y” Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy he wrote in a tweet posted on Saturday.

“This plume of plasma 14 planets high was raining moon-sized clumps of glowing material onto the sun. I can’t imagine a place more hellish.”

The Arizona-based astrophotographer accompanied his tweet with the stunning video of the hurricane, which stretched more than 74,500 miles into space.

McCarthy’s perfectionism appears to have deleted the passage afterward I apologize for being a “glitch”, We pledge to publish clearer, high-resolution content in the near future.

Meanwhile, another astrophotographer, Apollo Lasky, also captured the amazing moment that was shared on social media. “I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years of sun-watching,” Lasky gushed.

It is estimated that the hurricane was moving across the Sun at a whopping 310,000 miles per hour, and would have reached a temperature of about 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit – much hotter than the surface temperature of the Sun, which is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Twitter users were horrified to see the stunned McCarthy before she was pulled from the site one exclaims“,” How wonderful and wonderful our Universe is!

last Simply mentioned“magnificence!”

Solar hurricanes are associated with solar eruptions, which arise from the turbulent interaction of magnetic field lines on the sun’s surface, releasing clouds of plasma as they rotate.

Despite their enormous size and intensity, solar hurricanes are not uncommon, occurring several times a year.

In June of last year, another solar hurricane was spotted on the sun, though it was much smaller at 12,000 miles across — about one-sixth the size of the hurricane imaged last weekend.