NASA captured on video the moment when a piece of the north pole of the Sun broke off

A giant piece detached from the Sun and was captured for the first time on video by the POT. It’s about a giant plasma filamentor electrified gas, shooting out of the Sun, separating and then circling in a ‘massive polar vortex’.

The most curious thing is that scientists still have no idea what could have caused this astronomical phenomenon, but some experts speculate that the prominence it has something to do with the reversal of the sun’s magnetic field that occurs once every solar cycle.

“Talk about the polar vortex! Material from a northern prominence has just broken away from the main filament and is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around our star’s north pole. The implications for understanding the atmospheric dynamics of the Sun above 55° here cannot be overstated!”Tamitha Skov said in the tweet she posted, accompanying the video.

NASA describes solar filaments as clouds of charged particles that float above the sun, bound to it by magnetic forces. These appear as elongated, ragged strands shooting out of the sun’s surface. The prominence mentioned by Skov appears precisely at 55 degrees latitude around the sun’s polar coronas every 11 years.

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scott mcintosha solar physicist and deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, spoke to Space.com about the strange phenomenon.

“Once every solar cycle, it forms at 55-degree latitude and starts marching toward the solar poles,” McIntosh said. “It is very curious. There is a big ‘why’ question around you. Why does it only move towards the pole once and then disappear and then return, magically, three or four years later in the exact same region?”

Studies show that solar activity today is very similar to what it was 11 years ago. (YO)