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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The phenomenon, which is baffling scientists, was caught by NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope and shared to Twitter by Tamitha Skov, a space weather physicist and researcher based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Scientists are scratching their heads after NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope revealed a large chunk of the sun\u2019s surface breaking off of the star and circling its north pole like a vortex. The unexpected event has scientists both excited, as well as nervous.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalk about Polar Vortex!\u201d writes Skov on Twitter. \u201cMaterial from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun\u2019s atmospheric dynamics above 55\u00b0 here cannot be overstated!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce every solar cycle, it forms at the 55-degree latitude and it starts to march up to the solar poles,\u201d explains Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

Scientists believe the answer lies within the sun\u2019s magnetic field, but because they are only able to view the sun from Earth\u2019s limited \u201cecliptic plane,\u201d the sun\u2019s activity still remains somewhat of a mystery.<\/p>\n

While it is typical for unusual activity like this to occur on the sun\u2019s 55\u00b0 latitudes once every 11-year solar cycle, this solar prominence, also known as a filament, is the first one to be observed circulating the region in a swirling motion as opposed to shooting out directly into space.<\/b><\/p>\n

The sun is coming to its most active phase in its 11-year solar cycle and will reach its highest level activity for that cycle in 2025. During this month alone, the sun has released multiple flares that were so powerful they were able to knock out shortwave radios on Earth.<\/p>\n

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