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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Space Hurricanes

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Space hurricanes are officially a thing. What does that mean for us here on Earth? Probably not much.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey and welcome to The Short Stuff.

0:36.2

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's the special, but normal producer Dave here.

0:42.2

I just mean special like in a way that like sure by special and all the right ways.

0:46.5

That's right.

0:47.5

In a romper room sort of way.

0:48.8

That's exactly right.

0:50.0

And I'll tell you something else that's special Chuck.

0:52.9

Something very special happened on August 20, 2014 over the magnetic North Pole of this

1:00.7

here planet Earth.

1:02.7

For the first time in the history of humanity, we documented what's known as a space plasma

1:11.0

hurricane in that neat.

1:13.6

It's neat and this is something that wasn't fully well, it was documented here and there,

1:19.9

but nature communications wrote about it in February of this year.

1:24.1

So I think it got a lot more attention seven years after the fact, almost seven years.

1:30.0

But yeah, this was like you said, above the North Pole, it happened over a few hours.

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