14 DAY TRIAL // It's "tornado season" on the Sun, apparently. Fortunately, unlike their earthly counterparts, Sun tornadoes only awe through their spectacle, they don't actually do any damage.
Which is just as well, since these tornadoes are big enough to engulf a planet, or at least a moon.
And thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, we can witness the amazing phenomenon from a safe distance.
The video depicts a 38-hour period at the beginning of June. During that time, several tornadoes, made up of plasma dancing in the Sun's powerful magnetic field, were spotted.
The Sun is at the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, meaning that we should be seeing more footage like this for a while. Unfortunately, it also means that powerful solar eruptions may happen, possibly causing problems on Earth if they happen to be aimed at our planet.