Holes in the Sun’s Corona

Jan 11, 11

Posted by B1zzle in OUTERSPACE & SCIENCE

This Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on January 10 in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark coronal hole just about at sun center. Coronal holes are areas of the Sun’s surface that are the source of open magnetic field lines that head way out into space. They are also the source regions of the fast solar...