(This article is authored by Alar)

In an unexpected turn, an huge chunk of the Sun suddenly broke off and created a spiral pattern in one of the solar poles, which caused astronomers all over the world to become alarmed. Dr. Tamitha Skov, a space weather physicist who is also commonly referred to as the "space weather woman," was the one who made the initial report of the incident.

She wrote a tweet about the event in which she addressed, "Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated".

Skov further explained in the note, "More observations of the #SolarPolarVortex reveal it took roughly 8 hours for material to circumnavigate the pole at approximately 60° latitude. This means an upper bound in the estimation of horizontal wind speed in this event is 96 kilometers per second or 60 miles a second".  According to Space.com, number of apparently harmless solar flares have disrupted communications on Earth this month despite the sun's apparent lack of activity. In 2025, the eleventh year of the current cycle, the sun will reach its maximum activity.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory at NASA captured footage of a massive filament of plasma, or electrified gas, erupting from the Sun, splitting apart, and eventually recirculating in a 'massive polar vortex.' Solar physicist and deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Scott McIntosh told Space.com that he had never seen a vortex like the one that formed when a piece of the prominence broke off and was whipped into the solar atmosphere.

NASA describes the prominence as a large bright feature that extends outward from the surface of the Sun. Although there have been other instances like this in the past, this particular one has left the scientific community bewildered. And now, scientists  are striving into the strange event in order to uncover more specifics about it and present a more accurate picture of what happened.