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Wind speeds in this monster top 150,000 mph. If we rated it on the Fujita scale, it would be a F100, at least. The structure of the twister is not defined by wind, however. Tornadoes on the sun are controlled by magnetism. Solar magnetic fields twist in a furious spiral, dragging clouds of plasma around and hurling them into space when they become overtorqued.

Tornadoes on the sun have been seen before, but this one is unusually large--a monster, indeed.​
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THE CENTENNIAL GLEISSBERG CYCLE: If you've been enjoying the auroras of Solar Cycle 25, we've got good news. The next few solar cycles could be even more intense--a result of the little-known phenomenon called the "Centennial Gleissberg Cycle."​

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You've probably heard of the 11-year sunspot cycle. The Gleissberg Cycle is a slower modulation, which suppresses sunspot numbers every 80 to 100 years. For the past ~10 years, the sun has been near a low point in this cycle, but this is about to change.​

New research published in the journal Space Weather suggests that the Gleissberg Cycle is waking up again. If this is true, solar cycles for the next 50 years could become increasingly intense.
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53-Year-Old Soviet Spacecraft Will Plummet Back to Earth This Week

The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in a single piece.
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Kosmos 482 has been trapped in Earth’s orbit for 53 years but its wandering journey is coming to an end. The failed Venus mission is expected to reenter through the atmosphere in a dramatic fall toward its home planet, where it may remain intact or scatter its bits across a still unknown location on either side of the equator.


The Soviet-era spacecraft will plunge through Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 8 to 12. As of now, the exact location of where Kosmos 482 will crash-land on Earth is still unknown, with a preliminary estimate that stretches across large parts of the world on either side of the equator.
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Anywhere between 52 degrees North and 52 degrees South is my understanding.
 
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The Gleissberg Cycle is a slower modulation, which suppresses sunspot numbers every 80 to 100 years.
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Wasn't there a massive cycle around 100 years ago that took out telegram lines and started fires?

Anywhere between 52 degrees North and 52 degrees South is my understanding.
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I wonder if they're going to resurrect the Skylab hard hats with the bullseye targets on top. Probably not enough time. Pity.
 
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