Watch solar tornado Video Recorded by Nasa SDO Andrew McCarthy & more

The results of the movements taking place in the Sun are being seen every day. Sometimes solar flares are coming towards the earth, sometimes CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). All this is the result of the 11-year solar cycle, which has ‘fired up’ the Sun. Recently, another spectacular event was observed in the Sun, which surprised scientists and researchers. Such a high solar tornado rose in the Sun, which was not seen before. Its height was about 10 times more than the height of the earth.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory of the American space agency NASA captured this incident on camera last Friday. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy also confirmed this in one of his tweets. He captured this event with his solar telescope. Andrew wrote that he spent 3 hours yesterday with his solar telescope. During this, a long tornado-like thing appeared on the Sun.

There’s a “tornado” on the surface of the sun right now. Will be spending the rest of the day watching it to see what happens. These always make for fascinating timelapses. My best guess is it’s over 100k miles tall, I’ll measure it more accurately in a coming post. pic.twitter.com/D5Ji87a0pe

— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) March 17, 2023

According to reports, its height was equal to 14 Earths one above the other. This ‘whirlwind’ of solar plasma was throwing moon-sized fireballs at the Sun itself. From this it can be estimated that our Sun is in very active phase. A video related to this also surfaced, which was shared by Andrew McCarthy. It was claimed that the solar tornado was spread up to 1 lakh 19 thousand kilometers in space. However, due to the video not being very clear, he deleted it.

Solar tornado near the sun’s North Pole. This thing was twisting and growing for 3 days.
Unlike tornadoes on Earth, tornadoes on the sun are controlled by magnetism. Solar magnetic fields twist in a furious spiral, dragging clouds of plasma around with them.

© Apollo Lasky / SDO pic.twitter.com/LYdUUtbLEf

— Girl In Space  (@ExploreCosmos_) March 20, 2023

Another astrophotographer, Apollo Lasky, also captured the astonishing phenomenon and shared it on social media. He said that such activity in the sun has never been seen in the past years. It has been estimated that the ‘Solar Tornado’ was rotating above the Sun at a speed of about 5 lakh kilometers per hour and its temperature was about two and a half million degrees Celsius. This is much higher than the surface of the Sun.

Solar tornadoes are similar to solar flares. They are generated by magnetic field lines on the surface of the Sun and lift up plasma clouds. These are not at all unusual for the Sun and occur several times a year, but the size of the current solar tornado was enormous.