CROWLEY: Imagine a tornado as big as the earth, with winds up to 300,000 miles an hour, you actually don't have to imagine. CNN meteorologist, Chad Myers has details and some incredible images of this solar storm. Chad, show me.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You know, Candy, we've known about these for a long time, but we've never had pictures like this. This is a 30-hour condensed animation of real images from the sun. That right there, a vortex, almost like a dust devil, but that is the size of the earth. That one fast right there, that's how big the earth would be and the winds, 300,000 miles per hour in a big circle. Now, you know, first time we've been able to see this because now it's on the edge. Notice how we see it because it's here on the edge of the sun's surface. There may be one here. There may be one here. There may be one here, but we can't see them because we lack the contrast between the dark and light. But it's the gas and the plasma shooting out of this as fast as it can comes, and as it comes out, it spins just like a tornado. These are the great images from the first really solar dynamic observatory, 900,000 miles in space. It's a satellite telescope out there, $865 million project. It's going to determine the sun's magnetic field. How much energy is being released and is the sun getting hotter or colder? Right now, we know it's getting more excited with more sun spots and maybe more (inaudible) even some of those northern lights coming up the next year or two -- Candy.</s>CROWLEY: Chad Myers, gorgeous pictures. Thank you.
Massive Tornado on the Sun