The first “space hurricane” was seen in a vortex above the earth, scientists said.
According to a study in the journal Nature Communications, a 600-mile-wide mass of plasma formed hundreds of miles above the North Pole.
Mike Woodwood, a space scientist at the University of Reading and co-author of the study, said: “Yet, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes existed, so it is unreliable to prove this with such striking observations.” .
The spectacle was captured by satellite in August 2014, but was only recently uncovered during research led by scientists at Shandong University in China.
The space storm had several spiral arms on the electron that “rained” instead of water, and the slow fizzing lasted eight hours, the researchers said.
“Tropical storms are heavily associated with energy radiation, and these space hurricanes should be created by unusually large and rapid transfers of solar wind energy radiation and charged particles into the Earth’s upper atmosphere,” Lockwood said.
Wood Wood said the discovery of “space hurricanes” during periods of low geometric activity suggests they may be a normal occurrence.
He said, “Plasma and magnetic fields in the planetary atmosphere exist throughout the universe, so the findings suggest that space storms should be a widespread phenomenon.
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