An image of one of a dozen such tornadoes found by SOHO. The
lighter right-hand side is material that is moving towards SOHO.
The darker left-hand side is material that is moving away from
SOHO (the doppler effect). Click on image for full size Courtesy
of NASA Tornadoes on the Sun! News story originally written on
May 1, 1998 There just seem to be so many exciting things
happening in space these days! One new discovery is that there
are storms on the Sun very similar to our own tornadoes ! This
discovery was made by ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO SOHO has spotted
a dozen of these storms. These storms are as wide as the planet
Earth and have gusts ten times faster than anything measured on
Earth! Doesn't seem as if we're in Kansas anymore! Also,
happening on the Sun...There seems to have been a coronal mass
ejection two days ago. Activity like this on the Sun can often
disrupt radio communications. It can cause pilots to lose
contact with their control towers and even disorient migratory
anmals that depend on the E