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Enormous Hole in Sun’s Corona Seen By SOHO Spacecraft
Monday, July 29, 2013 6:24
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A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in the solar atmosphere — a dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space.
The so-called coronal hole over the sun’s north pole came into view between July 13 and 18 and was observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. NASA released a video of the sun hole as seen by the SOHO spacecraft, showing the region as a vast dark spot surrounded by solar activity.
Watch the video: A Vast Coronal Hole – a million kilometers long – Has Appeared in the Sun’s Northern Hemisphere
Image: ESA/NASA – SOHO
Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun’s surface.
Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun’s atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.
These holes are not uncommon, but their frequency changes with the solar activity cycle.
Ahem: nothing to worry, too much, about until that sucker is pointing straight at us. Many will have been watching this develop over the week.
Um: if a very large Coronal hole does point directly at us and the thing belches we could all be toast, like, 7 minutes later! I read that on my breakfast cereal packet. Oh well, none of us were going to live forever.
Live every day like it’s your last? Not an easy thing to do. Mayhem.
It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth. It takes 2-3 days for fire, radiation, and for the other particles to reach Earth. So we would have time to say goodbyes and such…
Thanks for that, Ambrocious, for pointing out my over-simplification.
Well the 2-3 days are up and did anything other than an Auroral display occur? Was there much in the way of radio or electrical intererence, even?
Seemed like much ado about nothing if i’m being asked.
No need to be alarmed, my HUman Prey!
‘In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun’s surface.’
Your Satellite is observing our custom manufactured Nano-particles arriving here (we ship things and ourselves) through naturally occurring magnetic field vortex’s that open through your sun and extend into your planet’s upper atmosphere at many points. The Nano particles will benefit us and not you. More ‘adjusting’ of your planet’s atmosphere is being done.
The ship is very large that contains my 20 million fellow Reptilians! It will just POP out of that big hole in the Sun very soon!
No one comes to ‘save you’, because you are our Food, MY PROPERTY!
(Look carefully at my picture) I and my 20 million (look just like me, about 9 feet tall, approximately 400 Lbs) are coming soon to Africa, near you!
SEE YOU SOON AT YOUR PLACE!
Remember, ‘We do Love you’, both ‘spiritually” and ‘physically’, when you are ‘in the flesh’.
You will have a ‘personal’ relationship with us, soon!
@Oh Lord, dude you are so creepy, it’s “killing”me… thankyou for livening up the comments section…it’s been so boring lately..could you please “love” the King of Shambala first?? LOL…but seriously…do you have a blog spot…you sound crazy interesting, i’d reaaly like to hear more…you being 9 feet tall, is it hard to type on such a tiny keyboard?, do you find yourself annoyed, hitting your head on the ceiling all the time?? do you claim Ea or Inlil as your bloodline? i can’t seem to get a good look at your profile pic…gotta go for now..but please keep commenting…dropping clues…”HUman”???
And so we are supposed to believe that we are seeing the end of the solar maximum????If the solar maximum wasnt so maxed out,what will the coming solar minimum bring???I fear we will see the start of an ice age like the one that was seen a couple hundred years ago or so.Remember when the thames river froze over?The year with out a summer?I dunno but the sun sure is off to a good start for a solar minimum.LETS JUST HOPE WE DONT SEE ANOTHER SNOWBALL EARTH.But if we do there wont be any liberal demorat unkle daddy obummer voters left.
life will start over again as it has in the past so it will again in the future.
Why would you use SOHO and not SDO? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVL6Vdw6ww0