Space hurricane (Storm 🌪️)
A space hurricane is a huge, funnel-like, spiral geomagnetic storm that occurs above the polar Ionosphere of Earth, during extremely quiet conditions. They are related to the aurora borealis phenomenon, as the electron precipitation from the storm's funnel produces gigantic, cyclone-shaped auroras. Scientists believe that they occur in the polar regions of planets w...
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When new planets form in distant solar systems, they carve out space hurricanes and vortices in the surrounding dust that could lead astronomers straight to them.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/03/04/writer-fuel-space-hurricanes-could-help-us-find-more-exoplanets/
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Young stars are surrounded by chaos: Clouds of gas, dust and ice swirl about in a so-called protoplanetary disk. And when gravity binds this material together, planets are born. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers developed a new technique to measure and date infant exoplanets forming in these protoplanetary disks. By...
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‘Space hurricanes’ swirling over the Earth surprise scientists https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/15/space-hurricanes-auroras/
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