First-ever ‘space hurricane’ detected over the North Pole – Livescience.com

For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) hurricane
of plasma in Earth
‘s upper atmosphere a phenomenon they’re calling a “space hurricane.”
The space hurricane raged for nearly 8 hours on Aug. 20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth’s magnetic North Pole, according to a study published Feb. 22 in the journal Nature Communications
.
Made from a tangled mess of magnetic field lines
and fast-flying solar wind, the hurricane was invisible…

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