
What is a space hurricane?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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A Space Hurricane With Plasma and Raining Electronse
This is a complex interaction of the plasma at the edge of the earth sphere and the magnetic fields. This one lasted about eight hours before it dissipated, and we haven't seen another one. It's not something that happens very often. And so this one particular storm was seen in two thousand 14 with satellite observations. I think space hurricane just has the right ring to it. Rit hurricane just sounds more dramatic than typhoon or cyclone. Space cyclone, cosmic cyclone. You see that extra umph? So this thing is pretty awesome. But these are not that common. We're looking to understand how hurricanes form over the universe because we know there exist all kinds of forms
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