To: BenLurkin
Is a coronal hole the same thing as a sun spot?
I thought we have had a spotless sun for a record period recently.
4 posted on
09/05/2018 7:14:48 AM PDT by
fwdude
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To: fwdude
I think a coronal hole is different from a sun spot.
10 posted on
09/05/2018 7:37:51 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: fwdude
A corona hole is a thin spot in the atmosphere of the sun that allows higher speed solar wind to escape the sun.
Sun spots are smaller holes of magnetic instability that can create solar flares (cracks in the surface of the sun that allows very high energy to escape. X-rays and gamma radiation.) and coronal mass ejections from the surface out into space.
14 posted on
09/05/2018 7:46:58 AM PDT by
Delta 21
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