Solar Tornado Rips Through the Corona

You’ve seen the photos, now you can watch the video of the monster solar tornado that was spotted wreaking magnetic havoc in the sun’s superheated atmosphere last September.

During a Discovery News interview, co-discoverer Xing Li, solar physicist at Aberystwyth University, described this magnetic twister as a “beast” that sucks solar plasma high into the corona, accelerating it to 300,000 kilometers (190,000 miles) per hour. As seen here, the structure grows to a width of several Earths.

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Source: news.discovery.com

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    Wait! There are tornadoes on the Sun?? FML
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    Does this explain last month’s UFO tethered to the sun or is that what THEY want us to think?
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    Oh cosmos, your wrath and destruction is so much more mightier than
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