Huge solar tornado as tall as 14 Earths hurls plasma cloud into space.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as a tornado emerged above the sun's north pole. (Image credit: NASA/SDO/composite by Steve Spaleta)

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be 'the tallest tornado' in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun.

The twisting filament of boiling plasma kept growing in the sun's atmosphere for three days last week, reaching the height of around 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers), or 14 Earths, on Saturday (March 18), before collapsing into a cloud of magnetized gas. The collapse of the solar tornado ejected material from the sun's atmosphere into the surrounding space, SpaceWeather reported, which, however, will not affect our planet. 

Many amateur astronomers pointed their telescopes at the sun's north pole upon learning about the odd occurrence. 

Source: www.space.com

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