Sun’s Piece Breaks Off, NASA

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge portion of the sun breaking off from its surface, and is now circulating around the north pole of the star, space weather forecaster Dr. Tamitha Skov tweeted.
The filmed video showed a large filament of plasma, or electrified gas, blasting out from the sun, splitting, and then circling in a ‘vast polar vortex.’
According to Tamitha, material from a northern prominence of the sun broke away from the main filament.
The never before seen phenomenon happened at the Sun’s 55-degree latitudes.
NASA defined solar prominence as a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface. It also defined the solar filament as a dark line or curve, and a huge arc of plasma (electrified gas) in the Sun’s atmosphere.