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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: Dexter on December 10, 2018, 09:38:57 pm

Title: Something that fascinates me
Post by: Dexter on December 10, 2018, 09:38:57 pm
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQx1YvgE7s#)

The sun occasionally creates plasma tornadoes. Those tornadoes can be several times the diameter of our entire planet.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0#)

Can you imagine how big plasma tornadoes must be on a star that's many millions of times larger than our sun? Think about a plasma tornado that's several hundred times the diameter of our sun.