New research has unveiled the awesome power of newly-discovered "space hurricanes."

In 2014, an unusual phenomenon appeared in space, miles above the North Pole. It looked like a hurricane you might see on Earth : a huge swirl with spiral arms and even an eye in the center, but made of charged particles and glowing with auroral light.

The space hurricane is a type of auroral event, like the northern lights, which are also accompanied by significant space weather events.

In the case of the August 2014 polar cap aurora phenomenon, satellites observed an auroral spot over 620 miles in diameter, which appeared to look like a cyclone, including multiple spiral arms moving in an anti-clockwise rotation.

Now, a detailed study of the event has describing the large-scale, cyclone-shaped auror

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