NASA Captured a Piece of Sun's Northern Pole Breaking Off, Leaving Scientists Baffled;
How Could This Be Possible?
(Photo : Unsplash/NASA) NASA Captured a Piece of the Sun's Northern Pole Breaking Off; How Could This Be Possible?
NASA filmed the never-before-seen phenomenon of the moment when a piece of the Sun's northern pole broke off, which has astronomers bewildered. A video depicts an enormous filament of plasma, or electrified gas, blasting out from the Sun, splitting, and then circling in a "vast polar vortex."
Scientists believe the prominence is related to the reversal of the Sun's magnetic field, which occurs during a solar cycle. Space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov uploaded the video on Twitter with a caption saying that NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured it.
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Skov wrote in her Twitter post that the strange circular vortex coming from the Sun is a solar filament that is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around its northern part. NASA said these solar filaments are clouds of charged particles that float above the Sun attached via magnetic forces, which could last from hours to days.
The recent solar filaments look like elongated, uneven strands that emerged from the Sun's surface. Skov pointed out that the prominence it showed appears precisely at the 55-degree latitude around the polar coronas every 11 years.
"Once every solar cycle, it forms at the 55-degree latitude and it starts to march up to the solar poles," said Scott McIntosh, deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado told Space.com.
He added that the solar filament is a bit strange and raises questions, such as why it only migrates toward the pole and then disappears and reappears every three to four years in the same region.
While scientists have previously detected filaments breaking away from the sun, this is the first time a whirlwind has passed through the area. In 2015, two long strands of solar material burst into space after breaking loose from the sun.
The higher one shattered first, releasing black plasma into an active zone underneath it. That lower filament erupted an hour or two later. Scientists are still trying to figure out what caused the filament in the latest observation to whirl around the sun rather than shoot out into space.
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