{"id":177659,"date":"2023-12-07T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-gigantic-hole-just-opened-up-in-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-12-07T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:26:34","slug":"a-gigantic-hole-just-opened-up-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-gigantic-hole-just-opened-up-in-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gigantic-hole-just-opened-up-in-the-sun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gaping-hole-in-the-sun-bigger-than-60-earths-just-blasted-solar-wind-right-at-us\" class=\"\">massive hole<\/a> opened up in the Sun\u2019s atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>Coronal holes like this one, imaged by NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, occur when the Sun\u2019s magnetic field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/phenomena\/coronal-holes\" class=\"\">suddenly allows a huge stream<\/a> of the star\u2019s upper atmosphere to pour out in the form of solar wind.<\/p>\n<p>Over a short period of time, these highly energized particles can eventually make their way to us and \u2014 if powerful enough \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/solar-storm-season-satellite-issues-noaa\" class=\"\">wreak havoc<\/a> on satellites in the Earth\u2019s orbit. In rare instances, they can even <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/eruption-sun-power-grid\" class=\"\">mess with the electrical grid<\/a> back on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive hole opened up in the Sun\u2019s atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak. Coronal holes like this one, imaged by NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, occur when the Sun\u2019s magnetic field suddenly allows a huge stream of the star\u2019s upper atmosphere to pour [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}