Video: Sun tornado captured by NASA spacecraft

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 19:30 in Astronomy & Space

A NASA spacecraft captured images of a tornado on the sun, spinning at 186,000 miles an hour and heating up to 3.5 million degrees. Scott Pelley reports.

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