SHOCK! The large plate broke away from the Sun, creating a terrifying vortex; Should we be worried?
The sun has been bursting with non-stop solar activity in recent weeks. In the past three days alone, we have seen many solar flares, solar storms, and sunspots that are increasing at an alarming rate. And now, in a shocking event, astronomers have seen a large patch of the Sun separate from its body. This extremely rare event causes the Sun’s matter to spin violently until it reaches the star’s poles and creates a massive vortex. Is this a sign of more fearsome solar storms making landfall on Earth?
The incident was reported by Dr. Tamitha Skov, space weather physicists Who Also known as the space weather woman. She posted about the incident on her Twitter account and speak, “Talking about Polar Vortex! Matter from a northern prominence has just separated from the main filament and is now circulating in a massive vortex around our Star’s north pole. The implications for understanding the atmospheric dynamics of the Sun above 55° here cannot be overstated.”
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Matter separating from the Sun has been described as a prominent feature of the Sun. NASA defines it as a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface. Unlike solar flares, flares are anchored to the surface of the Sun in the photosphere and extend beyond the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, known as the corona. They give the appearance of a tornado or a tornado.
Skov further explained in a follow-up tweet, “Other observations of #SolarPolarVortex show that it takes about 8 hours for matter to circumnavigate the poles at approximately 60° latitude. This means that the upper limit of the horizontal wind speed estimate for this event is 96 km/s or 60 mph.”
The bigger question is whether this has a direct impact on our planet. While the Sun’s prominence itself will not affect the Earth, it shows that solar perturbations and activity on the star will continue. Since the incident, the number of sunspots as well as solar flare eruptions has also increased significantly and current forecasts suggest that conditions will continue to do so for some time.
