A space hurricane was detected a couple of months ago, and now, astronomers captured incredible footage of a polar vortex at the Sun’s north pole using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. More specifically, a chunk of solar plasma from a northern prominence broke away from the main filament and was sucked into a massive polar vortex around the north pole of the Sun.
Why does this happen? Well, it forms at the 55 degree latitude and it starts to march up to the solar poles once every solar cycle. Scientists haven’t figured out ‘why’ it happens, especially does the reason behind its move toward the pole one time, disappearing, and then coming back mysteriously 3-4 years later in exactly the same region.
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Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated,” said Dr. Tamitha Skov, Space Weather Physicist.
