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Watch solar tornado as tall as 14 Earths hurl plasma cloud into space (video)

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be ‘the tallest tornado’ in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun.

The twisting filament of boiling plasma kept growing in the sun’s atmosphere for three days last week, reaching the height of around 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers), or 14 Earths, on Saturday (March 18), before collapsing into a cloud of magnetized gas. The collapse of the solar tornado ejected material from the sun’s atmosphere into the surrounding space, SpaceWeather (opens in new tab) reported, which, however, will not affect our planet. 

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