Science Discoveries
An object that may be “the tallest tornado” in the solar system was caught by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as it swirled around the sun’s north pole. Before bursting into a cloud of magnetized gas, the twisting filament of boiling plasma continued to develop in the sun’s atmosphere for three days, reaching a height of around 111,000 miles (178,000 kilometers), or 14 Earths. Material from the sun’s atmosphere was thrown into the surrounding space when the solar storm collapsed.
Credit Voyager