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Daily Eye Wonder July 2012
A collection of some beautiful, strange, interesting, and fascinating pictures of weather, environment and space that might let you wonder.
Super-heated Sun tornado
Did you know the atmosphere surrounding the sun is 300 times hotter than its surface? Scientists believe “super tornadoes,” some having a diameter of up to 3,500 miles are the reason. The spiral lines represent the velocity field in the tornado vortex. More information here: www.space.com/16325-sun-tornado-solar-twisters.html
(Photo: Wedemeyer-Böhm et al./Image produced with VAPOR/WJLA)
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