Space hurricanes are officially a thing. What does that mean for us here on Earth? Probably not much.
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know's short-form spinoff, Josh and Chuck dive into the fascinating discovery of space plasma hurricanes, mysterious spinning vortexes of ionized gas that were first documented over the North Pole in 2014. The hosts explore what makes these cosmic phenomena so similar to earthbound hurricanes—complete with rotating arms and calm centers—while highlighting how they're fundamentally different in composition, scale, and location in the ionosphere. It's a wild introduction to a completely new frontier in space science that scientists are still trying to fully understand, and it might be way more common than we ever realized.
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