00:03the sun is on an 11-year cycle approaching its expected solar maximum in 2025 but as it approaches
00:09that we can expect it to continually get more and more active and recently it did something
00:14astronomers have never seen before what you're seeing is a hot strand of plasma filament ejecting
00:19from the northern pole of the sun but what happens next is what's baffling scientists
00:23the filament begins to swirl separating and turning into a vortex and scott mcintosh a
00:28solar physicist who's been studying the sun for years says even he has never seen anything quite
00:32like this this year has already been a wild one for the sun which has sent out several x and
00:37m class
00:38flares in january of this year already the solar maximum we're quickly approaching occurs when the
00:43sun's magnetic poles flip reversing the polarity of its field lines but science alert reports not all
00:48solar maximums are the same and so far this cycle has been particularly energetic
Comments