According to a release from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO),A large chunk of material in the sun’s north pole bulge suddenly broke off and is spinning around the sun’s north pole in a huge polar vortex.
According to NASA,The part that breaks off is a huge filament of plasma, or electric gaslike fine, uneven threads emanating from the surface of the sun, magnetically bound by the sun.
This strange phenomenon has astronomers excited and very confused.
The bulge is thought to be related to the reversal of the sun’s magnetic field that occurs every solar cycle, with the bulge appearing at exactly 55 degrees of latitude around the sun’s polar caps every 11 years.
The strangest thing is,Astronomers have seen filaments breaking away from the Sun before, but this is the first time they have seen the filaments circulating in a whirlwind pattern, and the reason for this is not clear.
In 2015, two long filaments of solar material fell from the sun, blasted into space, and then broke and exploded one after the other.
In August 2022, the European Space Agency’s Gaia probe made a chilling prediction:Our sun is almost halfway through its life.
However, the sun, which has passed through 4.57 billion years, still has about 5 billion lifetimes, so we don’t need to worry about what is happening in “The Wandering Earth”.
