A spatial hurricane above the North Pole has rained charged electrons

A spatial hurricane above the North Pole has rained charged electrons

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Scientists have discovered that hurricanes in space are real after finding evidence from one year ago that took place across the North Pole. As if the revelation of space hurricanes was not enough, the scientists also learned that it caused charged electrons to rain, according to a new summary on Nature.com as reported by The Weather Channel. A research team from Shandong University recorded a formation of plasma above the North Pole on 20 August 2014, and it was now determined years later that the glowing vortex was actually a hurricane in space.

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“Until now, it was uncertain that there were even hurricanes in space in space, so it’s incredible to prove it with such a striking observation,” said Mike Lockwood, a space environmental physicist, Mike Lockwood , said in a statement to The Weather Channel.

This hurricane was observed in the magnetosphere – no, it is not related to the X-Men, although it would be wonderful – it is the space around the earth where charged particles are affected, in this case, the Earth’s magnetic field. It was this magnetosphere that helped scientists determine that in 2014 the space hurricane caused charged electrons to rain.

The electrons rained down in the ionosphere of the planet, it is ‘a part of the earth’s upper atmosphere that is ionized or charged by solar radiation’, according to The Weather Channel, which created an enormous, cyclone-shaped aurora. This aurora, and any aurora commonly found in the Arctic or Antarctic regions of the world, occurs when there is a disturbance in the magnetosphere.According to the scientists and their summary, this spatial hurricane was made of plasma and had several exploding arms that rotated clockwise at speeds as fast as 2100 meters per second or 4698 miles per hour. Like the hurricanes that occur below on Earth, the eye of this spatial hurricane basically remained silent while the rest of the storm quickly revolved around it.

The results of the team’s findings mean that the aurora can now be used to identify space hurricanes. It also means that the magnetosphere, formerly considered a calm region, could be the site of serious conditions, such as that of a hurricane in space, which could potentially affect the Earth’s lower spheres, according to The Weather Channel .“This study indicates that there are still local, intense geomagnetic disturbances and energy deposits, comparable to those during superstorms,” ​​Shandong University space physicist and study leader Qing-He Zhang wrote in the summary. “It will update our understanding of the coupling process of the solar wind magnetosphere-ionosphere under extremely quiet geomagnetic conditions.”

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide for IGN. You can follow him Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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