Never seen before: NASA photographed a break and fall off at the north pole of the sun

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues on the way! CTOnews.com, February 13 (Xinhua)-- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recently captured an amazing video showing the breaking and falling off of a piece of the sun's north pole. The video shows a huge plasma filament spinning around the north pole of the sun, like a tornado. This is an unprecedented event that puzzles scientists.

According to reports, a video posted by NASA on social media Twitter shows a bulge of the sun's north pole breaking off from the pole and spinning in a huge polar whirlpool. NASA says this is a huge plasma filament, or electrochemical gas, that looks like a slender, uneven line shooting from the surface of the sun, attracted by the sun's magnetism.

Astronomers are confused. They speculate that the bulge is related to the reversal of the sun's magnetic field, which occurs in every solar cycle, and the bulge will appear precisely at 55 degrees latitude around the sun's polar cap every 11 years.

Although astronomers have observed filaments away from the sun before, this is the first time a filament has been observed circulating in the area in the form of a tornado. CTOnews.com learned that two long strands of solar material erupted from the sun in 2015, drifting through space, breaking and erupting. However, scientists have not yet determined what caused the recently observed plasma filaments to revolve around the sun rather than ejecting into space.

In August 2022, the European Space Agency's Gaia probe predicted a disturbing fact: our sun has passed about half its life. However, this sun, which has existed for 4.57 billion years, still has a life span of about 5 billion years, so we don't have to worry about what will happen in the "wandering Earth".

The recent increase in solar activity is due to the fact that it is entering the most active phase of the 11-year solar cycle, which will peak in 2024.