Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A never before seen solar vortex has been observed circling the sun's north pole. A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off ...

This vortex of plasma above the Sun is caused by the twisting of our star’s magnetic field, along which hot glowing plasma forms. The imager captured this with a 6-inch scope and Hα etalon filter. The ...