{"id":4048,"date":"2015-01-04T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2015-01-04T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:58:20","slug":"nasa-detects-enormous-coronal-hole-on-suns-south-pole-photo-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"NASA detects enormous ‘coronal hole’ on Sun\u2019s South Pole (PHOTO) \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA detects enormous ‘coronal hole’ on Sun\u2019s South Pole (PHOTO) \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A giant dark hole has appeared on the sun\u2019s flaming surface, a recently-taken NASA picture has revealed. So far, scientists are stumped by why this spectacular phenomenon, known as a \u201ccoronal hole,\u201d occurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sun starts 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the South Pole<\/em>,\u201d scientists of NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory wrote in their blog, having posted a picture of the flaming sun with a gaping dark space in its lower part.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Spectacular space: The most stunning, mind-boggling photos & videos of 2014!<\/a><\/p>\n

What modern science knows is that \u201ccoronal holes<\/em>\u201d are places where particles leave the sun\u2019s surface at huge speeds – of up to 500 miles per hour (800 kilometers per hour). What\u2019s still unclear is why this is happening.<\/p>\n

The sun\u2019s glowing comes from the \u201ctrapped<\/em>\u201d particles. The coronal holes \u201ccontain little solar material, have lower temperatures, and therefore, appear much darker<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first pictures of the phenomenon were taken by NASA astronauts in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

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NASA detects enormous ‘coronal hole’ on Sun\u2019s South Pole (PHOTO) \u2014 RT News. A giant dark hole has appeared on the sun\u2019s flaming surface, a recently-taken NASA picture has revealed. So far, scientists are stumped by why this spectacular phenomenon, known as a \u201ccoronal hole,\u201d occurs. \u201cThe Sun starts 2015 with an enormous coronal hole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2415,929,2416,760],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coronal-hole","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}