Stunning Video Of A Tornado On The Sun

 
 
 

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory posted this stunning video, which shows the sun’s plasma sliding and spinning around in the star’s magnetic fields for 30 hours earlier this month.

Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Fox News that the tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour. By comparison, the strongest tornadoes on earth, F5 storms, clock wind speeds at a relatively paltry (though incredibly destructive) 300 mph.

VIA: NPR

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  1. FN Designs (@FannDesigns) (@FannDesigns) (@FannDesigns) wrote:
    February 23, 2012 at 6:11 am

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    February 23, 2012 at 11:41 pm

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