Strange unprecedented vortex spotted around the sun's north pole
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Space.com ^
| 2/4/23 | Tereza Pultarova
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...
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Part of The Sun Has Broken Off And Formed a Vortex… What The Heck Is Going on?
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Science Alert ^
| 2/9/23 | Michael Starr
For all that the Sun is a ubiquitous and vital part of our lives, a lot about it remains baffling. And
now it's done something decidedly peculiar. Material from a filament of plasma erupting from the Sun's surface broke away and appeared to form a crown-like vortex over the solar north pole. Further analysis will be required to determine whether or not this is what actually occurred. For now, scientists are saying that they've not quite seen anything like it – and the footage itself is undoubtedly spectacular. olar shenanigans are not entirely unexpected currently. Our star is ramping up...
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Strange unprecedented vortex spotted around the sun's north pole
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Space.com ^
| 02/05/2023 | Tereza Pultarova published
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. Scott
McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Space.com that while he has never seen a vortex like this, something odd is happening at the sun's 55 degree latitudes with clockwork regularity once every solar cycle, the 11-year period characterized by an ebb and flow in the generation of sunspots and eruptions. The prominence...that McIntosh describes as...
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