Unprecedented Solar Activity: Massive Tornado and Debris Eruptions Threaten Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar tornado swirling across the north pole of the sun, which grew to the height of around 75,000 miles, or 14 Earths, before collapsing into a cloud of magnetized gas. The collapse of the solar tornado ejected material from the sun's atmosphere into the surrounding space, but it will not affect our planet. The sun has been fairly productive over the past days, with six sunspots currently visible on the star's disk, and two coronal holes spewing large quantities of speedy solar wind, which might trigger geomagnetic storms at Earth in the coming days.