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hollabackenny said:
There is no air in space...

So..? This was probably caused by gravity/magnetism.



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What are you talking about? All I see is some guy headbanging.



NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured these stunning images of magnetically captured plasma moving like a tornado across the sun's surface. But even more stunning than this video of the solar tornado are its statistics: it's estimated to be about as large as Earth itself, with wind gusts approaching 300,000 mph and a temperature of 15,000 degrees fahrenheit.





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Scoobes said:
Fake... there's no sound in space

As one of the comments says on YouTube there are sound waves on the sun.

Sound can travel in anything that vibrates. Since vacuum cannot vibrate, you would not hear anything where the camera is located. However, the sun is filled with gases that can vibrate and thus if you could stand next to the tornado you would hear it. The sun itself creates a sort of music due to magnetized plasma loops. watch?v=ZbIffp40U8w if you want to hear it. Paladiia

You don't need a microphone to record sound.



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this planet is so fucking weak & insignificant :



nice video, spoilt only by the idiot sound effects and music



IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
hollabackenny said:
There is no air in space...

So..? This was probably caused by gravity/magnetism.


close enough "plasma caught in a magnetic dance"

we should come up with a new name for it other than tornado and send it to NASA haha.



 

 

Cobretti2 said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
hollabackenny said:
There is no air in space...

So..? This was probably caused by gravity/magnetism.


close enough "plasma caught in a magnetic dance"

we should come up with a new name for it other than tornado and send it to NASA haha.

Hmm... Let's call it a...

 

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Weak. I want to see this from much larger stars.