When a column of plasma, known as a prominence, shoots up inside this structure, it is guided along the structure's helical magnetic field, causing the plasma to rotate and form a twister.
The phenomenon is known as a solar twister and was spotted by astrophotographer Apollo Lasky from Naperville, Illinois, USA on Tuesday.
Most of the plasma ejection fell back to the solar surface, and the rest of the material was hurled into space, according to experts at SpaceWeather.com.
Solar twisters are formed from 'prominences' - masses of superheated charged particles, or plasma, suspended in the solar atmosphere by the sun's magnetic field.
But the sun's magnetic field is about twice as strong as Earth's and is much larger, extending well beyond the farthest planet in the solar system.
The sun's magnetic poles flip at the peak of the solar activity cycle, and a solar wind composed of charged particles carries the magnetic field away from the sun’s surface and through the solar system. .
A CME is a significant release of plasma and accompanying magnetic field from the sun's corona – the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere – into the solar wind.
The sunspot AR3038 is now said to measure three times the size of Earth, and has an unstable magnetic field that is harbouring enough energy to cause brief radio blackouts
The sun is 109 times larger than the Earth with a mass that is 330,000 times that of our host planet - in fact it accounts for 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system including all the objects orbiting it
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