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- A tornado on the sun released a cloud of hot gas about six times the size of the Earth into space.
- The cloud was released alongside a powerful coronal mass ejection.
- The sun has been fizzing with activity as it nears its most restless state in more than a decade.
NASA captured an enormous tornado on the sun's surface that released a cloud of hot charged gas about six times the size of the Earth.
The gas cloud was spotted by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Thursday.