On February 22th 2021, the paper (Zhang et al., 2021) of the first observations of a space hurricane was published in Nature Communications. Co-author and professor at the Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Kjellmar Oksavik, has played an important role in the new and remarkable findings, that has caused lots of media coverage all over the world (see complete media list here).
Now the groundbreaking results have also been highlighted in this great article by National Geographic from March 23 entitled “Scientists spot a ‘space hurricane’ for the first time”.