First-ever 'Space Hurricane' Detected over the North Pole

For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600 mile wide(1,000 kilometres) hurricane of plasma in Earth's upper atmosphere, a phenomenon they're calling a "space hurricane."

Space Hurricane

• The space hurricane, a mysterious fuzzy patch of aurora lights, raged for nearly 8 hours on Aug. 20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth's magnetic North Pole.
• Made from a tangled mess of magnetic field lines and fast-flying solar wind, the hurricane was invisible to the naked eye — however, four weather satellites that passed over the North Pole detected a formation not unlike a typical terrestrial hurricane.
• The space hurricane ....