According to spaceweather.com, for most of the past week, astronomers observed a strange formation near the North Pole of the Sun, which grew for 3-4 days reaching its peak at a size of 14 times as large as the Earth.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in all the years of observing the sun,” says an astronomer at NASA who hasn’t slept, eaten or even drank for 72 hours, describing it as something that looks like a disaster movie.
The extraordinary event was spotted by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on March 17, before dispersing into space on March 18.
The tallest dust devil in the solar and system, and maybe the largest tornado ever recorded in human history. A height of around 120,000 km! Composed entirely of solar plasma, heat and magnetism. Captured today by Nasa satellite SDO aia171 pic.twitter.com/T3tNcaOGur— Domenico (@AvatarDomy) March 18, 2023 A Massive Solar Tornado on the surface of the sun lasted for 3 days and finally dissipated early this morning. pic.twitter.com/8IxxJrnpDB— Dr. Jay (@ChatProLegend76) March 19, 2023
In addition, the Sun at this moment was also somehow flashing:
"A Solar Prominence"
This has to be one of the coolest things I've done in a long time. I captured a swirling plasma tornado 3-4x bigger than our whole planet Earth, on the surface of the sun.
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SOLARMAX II 90MM 4x barlow
Orion Atlas EQ-G pic.twitter.com/2SaHpa5PyC— Mack Murdoc (@MackMurdoc) March 18, 2023
To calm themselves and the public, scientists used the term “solar tornado” for the phenomenon. According to them solar tornadoes occur due to magnetic fields whipping up the sun’s plasma. We do not think that the name is very successful as no one knows either the mechanism of their occurrence or the mechanism of operation.
The main thing that astronomers themselves admit is that they have not seen such an incident before.
11 years ago, a similar event was witnessed, although not at the pole:
People then suggested that a giant object – a black hole or a spaceship – was sucking energy out of the Sun. It is difficult to say how correct this theory was, but if everything was somehow like that, then now, obviously, something similar has happened. That is, some thing flew up to the Sun and pumped out substance from it.
On the other hand, it is impossible not to consider the presence of a certain object near the Sun, which we still call the planet Nibiru. Perhaps it is the source of such anomalies in the behavior of the star and most probably there will be more to come.
