Solar Tornadoes: NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory Captures Footage of Tornadoes On the Sun

[jakeXT]

Tornadoes are well known to cause plenty of havoc on Earth, but who would've guessed that they were also hitting other areas of our solar system? A recent video released from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory shows a speeded-up version of a 38-hour tornadic incident on the sun, an example of potentially dangerous "space weather."

Throughout the one-minute clip, multiple tornadoes can be seen making contact with the sun. According to Space.com’s YouTube page, the footage captured June 3-4 shows plasma moving across the sun’s surface, which is also commonly referred to as “sun tornadoes.”

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http://www.ibtimes.com/solar-tornadoes-nasa-solar-dynamic-observatory-captures-footage-tornadoes-sun-video-1300615#

[xocet]

1. A process with charged particles in EM Fields is not the same as one with wind shear and updrafts.

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[BadgerKid]

2. Vortices crop up in many places.

They strike me as solutions to fluid dynamics type problems involving pressure gradients of one sort or another.