Every 8 or so minutes a portal will form between the Earth and the Sun and tons of high energy particles will flow through it. Is it just me, or is that really fucking cool?! An actual portal. Amazing. It even has a wicked-cool sci fi name – a ‘Flux-Transfer Event.’
Scientists didn’t think they existed until 10 years ago, but now they know there is probably one happening above your head right now.
Particles in Earth’s magnetosphere that were first thought to travel to Earth via solar wind are now known to arrive through these portals.
Even in our boring patch on the Universe, something amazing is happening, right now.
LINK (NASA)
