Video from NASA telescopes shows a filament on 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 ...
On Feb. 2, a massive tentacle of plasma snapped apart in the sun's atmosphere before tumbling down, circling the star's north pole at thousands of miles a minute, and then disappearing — leaving ...
You’ve heard of the polar vortex, but how about a solar polar vortex? Scientists and the public alike are in awe over a bizarre video that emerged of a vaporous-looking eddy of solar plasma swirling ...
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. Source - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. CC ...