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Strange unprecedented vortex spotted around the sun's north pole
Space.com ^
| 2/4/23
| Tereza Pultarova
Posted on 02/12/2023 5:51:06 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Scientists have just spotted a strange circular filament wobbling around the sun's pole that has them really excited.
A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.
"Talk about polar vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our star," space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov said on Twitter while sharing a video sequence taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showing the odd whirlwind. "Implications for understanding the sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!"
Other solar physicists shared Skov's excitement about the unusual phenomenon. But what exactly is it and why is it important?
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: galaxy; solarvortex; space; sun
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
02/12/2023 5:53:11 AM PST
by
unread
("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
“A strange host around the sun”
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posted on
02/12/2023 5:58:08 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
02/12/2023 5:58:25 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:00:54 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Climate change on the Sun! Holy smoke! We’re all doomed!!!
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:00:58 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Has the Weather Channel named that polar vortex yet?
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:04:15 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:06:40 AM PST
by
sauropod
(“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:09:55 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Magnum44
Unprecedented in their minds, in their “experience”. Surely not actually unprecedented.
To: one guy in new jersey
That was my thought, the sun is 4.5 billion years old, we have been able to truly observe/study it only a couple of hundred years. It possibly could have happened before.
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:14:05 AM PST
by
Jolla
To: Roman_War_Criminal
This is why I purchased a disgronificator years ago.
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:18:00 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
To: KittyKares
You don’t have one yet? Try an internets search.
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posted on
02/12/2023 6:52:28 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
obviously aliens in invisible spaceship doing donuts on the suns top!
;)
To: Libloather
I often use the disgronificator to determine if a new mechanic is on the up and up. If they attempt to explain it is actually something under the hood, I knew to never use their services. With real, honest mechanics, we have a good laugh and remember the Greatest of All Time.
To: Libloather
I purchased mine online from Rio Linda and keep it next to the muffler bearings and flightline.
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posted on
02/12/2023 7:36:53 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Will Biden and Canada try to shoot it down?
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posted on
02/12/2023 7:59:34 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
It has been proposed that sun quakes are associated with solar flares, the release of material from within the sun.
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