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A solar tornado higher than 14 Earths was captured. Image: @AJamesMcCarthy Twitter

WATCH: Massive SOLAR TORNADO as big as 14 Earths

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the “tallest tornado” in the solar system swirling around the north pole of the sun – WATCH HERE:

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A solar tornado higher than 14 Earths was captured. Image: @AJamesMcCarthy Twitter

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured an incredible event taking place on the sun; the observatory recorded what is believed to be the “tallest tornado” in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun, space.com reports.

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Tallest solar tornado captured

The twisting filament of boiling plasma grew in the sun’s atmosphere for three days.

It finally reached a height of about 120,000 kilometers on 18 March, which is equivalent to the height of 14 Earths.

On that day, the tornado collapsed into a cloud of magnetized gas.

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This was ejected from the sun’s atmosphere into surrounding space.

Fortunately, this material will not have any impact on our planet.

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More about this phenomenon

According to a 1998 report in the journal of Science, solar tornadoes occur near the sun’s poles where lines of magnetic force extend into space.

These tornadoes can reach speeds of around 498 896 km/h.

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This is much faster than tornadoes on Earth that top out at 482 km/h.

Solar plasma rushes along the sun’s misaligned magnetic field lines and bursts out into space.

creating prominences that can be as hot as 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scientists have debated whether these solar tornadoes actually rotate, but research from 2018 and 2021 suggests that they do not.

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