Enormous 'polar vortex' on the sun is unprecedented, scientists say

Enormous 'polar vortex' on the sun is unprecedented, scientists say

Clip from Article: "...event captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. "Talk about Polar Vortex!" Skov tweeted. "Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament and is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star."...Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Live Science's sister site Space.com that he has never seen solar plasma behave this way before."

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