A photo of the sun from NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals an enormous coronal hole — a gap in the sun's outer layer and magnetic field the size of 50 Earths.
Credit: NASA/SDO
Posted on 10/16/2015 11:43:44 AM PDT by ETL
The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer of the sun and its magnetic field, the size of 50 Earths, is letting loose an ultrafast solar wind that has kicked off several nights of auroras down on Earth.
A new image, from NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, reveals the enormous hole as it was Oct. 10, taken at an ultraviolet wavelength unseen by the human eye. To an ordinary observer, the gaping hole would be invisible, though you should NEVER stare at the sun because serious eye damage can result.
The gap in the sun's magnetic field lets out a stream of particles traveling at up to 500 miles (800 kilometers) per second, kindling a days-long geomagnetic storm upon hitting Earth.
Coronal holes, like the one that materialized last week, normally form over the sun's poles and lower latitudes, more often when the sun is at a less active point in its 11-year cycle. They are areas within the sun's outermost layer, called its corona, which are lower-density and cooler — that, plus the weakened magnetic field, lets the plasma and charged particles that make up the corona stream out more easily in a solar wind. If aimed toward Earth, that spells the makings of a geomagnetic storm: a phenomenon that can affect power and navigation for satellites orbiting the Earth as well as radio communication.
A photo of the sun from NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals an enormous coronal hole — a gap in the sun's outer layer and magnetic field the size of 50 Earths.
Credit: NASA/SDO
--The Eagles
We really have to cut down our carbon output or this will keep happening more and more severely and frequently.
Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won’t you come?
Won’t you come?
—Soundgarden
RUH ROH!..........OH NO!..................
The Green Grass Grew All Around
There was a hole, (repeat)
In the middle of the ground, (repeat)
Prettiest little hole, (repeat)
That you ever did see, (repeat)
OOOOOH
The holes in the ground and the green grass grew all around all around and the green grass grew all around
2. and in that hole...there was some dirt
3. and in that dirt...there were some roots
4. and on those roots...there was a tree
5. and on that tree...there was a limb
6. and on that limb...there was a branch
7. and on that branch...there was a nest
8. and in that nest...there was an egg
9. and in that egg...there was a bird
10. and on that bird...there was a wing
11. and on that wing...there was a feather
12. and on that feather...there was a flea
13. and on that flea...there was a mite
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Bush’s fault?
Don't ask. I have no idea...
Tell it to ClassyGreenEyedBlonde.
He saw a Host over the sun when he stared at it for hours.
And here I just stared at the photo you posted, and now . . . noq . . . nfo I fan jatgfl srr amuhore#
Quite possibly, at least according to the Obama administration. They’re still trying to make the connections.
The science is settled.
That really looks like not a good thing............Just saying.
The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red
Oh no!! Alert Al Gore!! Maybe some new taxes will help!
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