Thursday, January 17, 2019

Bad weather in space? (part 4)


In some parts of the world, tornadoes are a serious problem, especially in places like Kansas. But we don't have to travel light years away to locate similar weather disasters—there are tornadoes happening right now on our very own sun! Colossal magnetic tornadoes occur on the surface of our sun and these tornadoes are comprised of superheated gas and plasma. One of these monstrosities was measured to be 5 times the size of Earth itself--if it was on the surface of the Earth, it would stretch half-way up to our moon! That's a tornado 125,000 miles high! And if there are complaints about “tornado season” in Kansas, it should be noted that, on average, there are 11,000 magnetic tornados raging across our sun's surface at all times. Dorothy might as well give up hope of ever going home!

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