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Awesome Solar Tornado
« on: Feb 17, 2012, 08:29:46 PM »
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/17/147071253/video-a-tornado-on-the-sun?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Fox News that the tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour. By comparison, the strongest tornadoes on earth, F5 storms, clock wind speeds at a relatively paltry (though incredibly destructive) 300 mph.

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Re: Awesome Solar Tornado
« Reply #1 on: Feb 17, 2012, 08:36:55 PM »
    I guess you could call the plasma flowing "out of" the sun a geyser as well. 
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Re: Awesome Solar Tornado
« Reply #2 on: Feb 18, 2012, 02:50:46 AM »
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Re: Awesome Solar Tornado
« Reply #3 on: Feb 18, 2012, 10:36:44 AM »
In case you guys aren't familiar with this sites:

http://www.spaceweather.com/

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/
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Re: Awesome Solar Tornado
« Reply #4 on: Feb 18, 2012, 02:11:32 PM »
OMG I know Terry Kucera! She and I belonged to the same astronomy based Explorer Post in high school.
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Re: Awesome Solar Tornado
« Reply #5 on: Feb 18, 2012, 02:12:51 PM »
Holy balls that's cool.
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