A first-ever “space hurricane” was spotted whirling above the Earth, scientists said.
The 600-mile-wide mass of plasma occurred several hundreds of miles above the North Pole, according to a study in the journal Nature Communications.
“Until now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible,” said Mike Lockwood, a space scientist at the University of Reading and co-author of the study, in a statement.
The spectacle was captured by satellites in August 2014, but only recently uncovered during research led by scientists from Shandong University in China.
The space hurricane “rained” electrons instead of water, had multiple spiral arms and lasted eight hours before gradually fizzing, researchers said.
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John Kerry is correct. Air conditioners in the summer is a bigger threat to our survival than ISIS or Al-Qaida is.
I was in Chicago in 1957 and remember a similar incident. I reported it to the police man on his beat. He listened to me. Later on I took a city bus and had a sandwich. I will tell you about the pair of shoes that I bought later…I have to go take a nap…