A Tornado On The Sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video of swirling plasma on the surface of the sun. It’s a tornado perhaps the size of the Earth itself, spinning at speeds a thousand times greater than Earth’s strongest storms.

(via NPR)

Source: NPR

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    A tornado on the Sun. A TORNADO ON THE SUN. A TORNADO. ON.THE.SUN.
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    Sweet jesus. The size of earth?!
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    I see two tornadoes. WOW.
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