Record super-large solar vortex

This is the first time a human has witnessed such a massive solar tornado.

>>>Video: Record super-large solar vortex

The image of a tornado 5 times the size of the Earth created by solar energy was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) camera.

The image of the cyclone of the super solar energy sent by SDO to Earth

This is the first time a human has witnessed such a massive solar tornado.

Hot gas tornado also moves at an amazing speed - about 168,000mph.

Solar energy tornadoes are also known as solar flares. It is usually formed by the magnetic field of the sun and often occurs during the eruption of a diurnal or a giant plasma explosion. The speed of this cyclone can sometimes reach several thousand miles per hour.

The tornado occurred on the height of 198,400km from this ground occurred on September 25, 2011, the video recorded this rare spectacle just published at the National Astronomy Conference in Manchester (England). March 29.

Xing Li, an astronomer at Aberystwyth University in Wales, believes the discovery is an important, precious event and "helps to study the structure from the Sun's atmosphere".

Scientists believe that the study of solar cyclones will help people understand the cause of the formation of space storms in general - which is still a big mystery to the space science. Earth.