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A bizarre phenomenon involving a portion of the sun’s surface splitting and circling the bigger body’s north pole – much like a polar vortex – has baffled scientists.
Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster, first brought attention to the phenomenon through a tweet. She accompanied her post with footage of the phenomenon, which was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Solar Dynamics Observatory.
“Talk about polar vortex,” she wrote. “Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55 degrees here cannot be overstated.”
As reported by NASA, a solar prominence is an enormous bright element that extends outside of the sun’s surface. Prominences are made up of hydrogen and helium and usually burst when a structure becomes unstable and erupts outward, releasing the plasma.
Other researchers shared Skov’s excitement about the bizarre phenomenon.
Solar physicist Scott McIntosh of the Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research said he has never seen a vortex like this. However, he said that something unusual commonly occurs at the sun’s 55-degree latitudes with clockwork consistency once every solar cycle – which occurs every 11 years. (Related: Model for plasma flow on the Sun reveals secrets behind sunspots and other solar phenomena.)
McIntosh described the prominence cited by Skov as a “hedgerow in the solar plasma.”
He asked: “Once every solar cycle, it forms at the 55-degree latitude, and it starts to march up to the solar poles. It’s very curious. There is a big ‘why’ question around it. Why does it only move toward the pole one time and then disappears and then comes back, magically, three or four years later in exactly the same region?”
Prominence appears to be linked to a shift in the sun’s magnetic field
Researchers believe the phenomena have to do with the switch of the sun’s magnetic field and they think that the polar region is very crucial in generating the magnetic field. However, they do not know what the exact cause is.
Scientists have frequently checked filaments break away from this pole-embracing plasma hedgerow, but they have yet to examine it from such a polar whirlwind up to now.
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McIntosh added that it is an area that cannot be observed first hand, as scientists can only watch the Sun from the ecliptic plane, or what the planets orbit.
“We can only observe the sun from the ecliptic plane,” McIntosh said, pertaining to the plane in which planets orbit.
Meanwhile, the ongoing Solar Orbiter mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) could give some understanding and may shed some light on this unusual phenomenon in the coming years.
The ESA Solar Orbiter mission, which is taking photos of the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury, will have its orbit tilted by up to 33 degrees.
McIntosh believes that might not be enough to figure out the mystery of the polar vortex and scientists could require another mission to fully comprehend what is occurring at the sun.
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I do not claim to know everything, actually very little of anything, but I have endeavored to read as widely as possible in astrophysics, astronomy, paleoclimatology, archaeology, cosmology, etc.
It does appear some relatively normal and staid scientists believe, or tends towards believing, that every 23,000 years in the Solar System’s orbit around our galaxy, the Earth wobbles. When this wobble occurs, incredible forces are unleashed with major and catastrophic changes and hundreds of volcanoes spew off, unleashing a global winter and Ice Age, which eventually dissipates, and “global warming” begins again; what happened around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago when the ice began to melt!
Perhaps the orbit at the 23,000 mark comes close to that secondary black hole a hundred light years from Earth, causing that planetary wobble —— who knows?! Much of humanity will be perish, humans thrown up hundreds or thousands of feet into the air, others drowned in floods and colossal tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. Horrifying to even contemplate!
So “climate change” happens throughout the solar system, and is a continuous cycle!
Every 60 million years the Earth or solar system performs a most peculiar elliptical orbit which probably also results in catastrophic force release —— 60 million years ago the dinosaurs went extinct?! Do not know if or how it ties into that 23,000 year cycle —- another celestial mystery?!
We are supposed to be somewhere at the 14,000 to 17,000 mark in this cycle, so “climate change” has been steadily ongoing for quite some time —– so hope the crazy rich folk and others come to their senses and do not gravely exacerbate the situation with their fanciful and moronic geoengineering of the planet!
(Have pondered whether that dude from a Seattle banking family, Bill Gates, is genuinely stupid in his worship of geoengineering or simply following his hidden agenda —- but then I recall his refusal at the offer too buy PostScript, while jumping at the chance to buy Powerpoint ——- probably a dunderhead after all!)
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Our Star “The Sun” is preparing for its Recurring MicroNova that happens every 12,000 years.
Buckle up Buttercup….we’re already overdue !