Sun breaks free

[Foxaèr]

Surprised no one posted it here.

Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists

Global News

Something very strange is going on with the Sun, and while it’s a phenomenon that’s baffling scientists, it also has them very excited.


Space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov shared a video sequence to Twitter late last week that shows a huge filament of solar plasma breaking free from the Sun’s surface.

“Talk about polar vortex! 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,” she tweeted of the footage, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

“Implications for understanding the sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”

According to Space.com, it’s the first time such a vortex has been observed. While scientists have previously observed filaments break free from the Sun, it’s the first time they’ve seen it form a polar whirlwind.

It's a sign of the times, the end times!

[Anomalocaris]

When they say “part of the sun breaks free”, they insinuates something far, far more dramatic than it is. Parts of the sun is breaking free all the time, and get ejected as solar wind. In fact the sun loses about a million ton’s worth of material each second.

That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. Over the life of the sun up to now, the sun may have lost a total of just a few earth mass of material. But the sun has 300,000 earth mass’s worth of material to lose.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Yes, well, it does seem like we are due for an extinction level smiting.

[Belacqua]

Yes, well, it does seem like we are due for an extinction level smiting.

One of those UFOs we shot down was full of sun tourists. 

Now they're coming for revenge.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Solar mass ejections.

[brewer]

The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.

[Fake Messiah]

Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.

‘Too much Freddie Mercury’ makes no sense to me.

Boru

[brewer]

The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.

‘Too much Freddie Mercury’ makes no sense to me.

Boru

You don't get the 'dad' planetary joke???

[Anomalocaris]

Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur.

I think you are  referring to the tidal hypothesis,  It supposed another star passed so close to the sun that they they almost touched, each coming within the Roche radius of the other.   The tidal interaction drew material off from each star which then coalesced to form the planets,   

That is event so unlikely it probably happened just a handful of times  across the entire milky way in the last 11 billion years.