Whirling at more than a million miles per hour, these invisible, funnel-shaped solar windstorms carry electrical currents of more than a hundred thousand amps—roughly ten times that of an average lightning strike—scientists announced Thursday.
And they're huge: up to 44,000 miles (70,000 kilometers) long and wide enough to envelop Earth.
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