Giant Solar Tornado Caught in NASA

Researchers "instantly hooked" by ethereal dance of solar plasma.

Andrew Fazekas

for National Geographic News

Published March 29, 2012

A monster "tornado" big enough to swallow a hundredEarths has been spied on the sun, according to astronomers who analyzed recent images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120329-sun-solar-tornadoes-biggest-nasa-sdo-space-science/