Space Hurricanes

It sounds like a cheesy end-of-the-world movie: a gigantic space hurricane, packing 4,000 mph winds, is stalled above the Earth raining down high-energy electrons instead of water.

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Except this isn’t a movie. It happened. And it’s the topic of research published in a scientific journal.

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Space hurricanes are a newly discovered type of storm that could be occurring every year. More than 10 have been documented in the upper atmosphere.