Huge hole over 400,000 miles long (700,000 kilometers) is 55 times wider than the Earth
A wide hole in the sun’s atmosphere is facing Earth and spewing a stream of solar wind toward our planet. Estimated time of arrival: April 9th. In this extreme ultraviolet image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, we see not only the hole, but also a bushy filament of magnetic bordering the hole’s leading edge:
Such filaments are often unstable. If this one erupts while it is facing Earth, it could hurl a CME in our direction, adding to the effect of the incoming solar wind.
The canyon-shaped hole is remarkably wide, stretching more than 700,000 km from end to end. As a result, Earth could be under the influence of its gaseous emissions for days.
An old guy at the beach this afternoon was charging $5 to look at the sun through his $50,000 solar telescope.
I paid $5, saw a large flare on the limb–but no hole. I was duped!
You didn’t see the sign “Hole temporarily closed for inspection”?? Then it must have just been gone for tea.
Noticed the Red Saux hat, perhaps that is a clue.
Guy got that from a pawn shop for $120 bucks.
Someone somewhere will predict the end is near.
It makes me wonder if the Sun’s magnetic field goes through cycles of strength and relative weakness or even reversing polarity like Earth’s field – or even if there is a synchronicity between the two? Does anyone know I f these “holes” might be linked to a weaker solar field?
I laughed at the comment about a CME making the George Foreman grill redundant – I always like to think of CERN as the world’s most expensive micro-wave oven.
Is there anything CO2 can’t do?
CMEs occur every week, sometimes 3x a day. No big deal. The risk here is only a little higher than the risk of creating a black hole at the Large Hadron Collider, which BTW a physicist sued CERN asking the judge to save the world
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”
Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe, “Neither has any merit.” He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html
It probably will create black holes, but they will evaporate in a matter of seconds.
MarkW – I’ve read that black holes that are formed could be so tiny that they’re insulated by a quantum length (no Hawking Radiation possible) and this would mean that the next time the compartment is energized they will definitely have a BH problem. Interesting stuff..
Some physicists say the guys at Cern are using the wrong value for a quantum mass. They’re off by many magnitudes! Theorists debate back and forth.
Settled science, no doubt.
Physicists take it for granted that there’s no evidence for Hawking radiation. I doubt it. In my quantum theory of black hole, Hawking radiation is theoretically possible but for a different physical mechanism than Hawking’s proposal. I employ quantum tunneling as the mechanism, which is experimentally confirmed. However, entanglement of particles makes the process complicated. It seems if Hawking radiation is possible, then a white hole is impossible. They are mutually exclusive. BTW in my theory a white hole is what we commonly call the Big Bang
How sure is ‘science’ that our current model of the sun is correct ?
Will it really take 4 thousand million years before the sun runs out of hydrogen, expands, and eventually gobbles up the earth ?
Will it really take 4 thousand million years before the sun runs out of hydrogen, expands, and eventually gobbles up the earth ?
Yep.
Bigfoot carcass believed Bigfoot victim
Buffalo carcass… nevermind
“Boffins astonished to discover a MASSIVE HOLE in the SUN!”
I’m having a major British tabloid moment here. What news from Yellowstone?
I’m sorry ? what massive hole as over the last 3 weeks there have been bigger ..
there have been a couple that have spanned the northern and southern hemispheres of the sun ?
so what gives ?
NASA issued a statement on it, so we covered it. Complain to them.
@gracious host 🙂
And thank you for that! Allow me to opine on the obvious causation of this event.
As several people have intuited, CO2 is the culprit, but do they know why? Do they understand the settled science of cause and effect?
Let me explain. CO2 is going to rise a little in about a year or two. This will directly cause a slight temperature increase in the oceans in the next few days and months. This will cause the CME any second now. Now here comes the part you folks have been missing, pay attention because it’s sciency. The oceans will cause the CLIMATE MODELS to pass through a discontinuity in the flux transformer coupled to the electromagnetic field of the sun, which is manifested by this hideous gash on the face of the sun.
CO2 – hole in the sun, Q.E.D.
Admittedly only 97% of (mainstream) climate scientists are 100% certain about this last part since the exact mechanism of the ocean-flux transformer coupling has not yet been worked out by the Strawmann team. But if our all-but-certain, (settled) consensus is accurate, and all the models prove that it is, tragically, the sun will be PERMANENTLY scarred with this ugly blemish which would probably spread rapidly to other stars, eventually causing the galaxy to collapse and then the universe, leading to the inevitable cuts in vital government programs. Republicans, well, probably all fascist radicals are hoping for this to kill THE CHIILDREN. Is that what you want to see happen?
It is your selfish use of energy, exemplified by the dangerous artificial cis-normative GMO photons you are using to read these words, that is ultimately going to be responsible for this apocalypse unless you send money. Repent and join the woke green church of CAGW!
Rich Davis, I’ll send you money if you can explain how my production of CO2 when I’m cooking can reach a star that is 93 million ++ miles from my house.
I made a lovely casserole last night of scalloped potatoes and ham au gratin and I refuse to give up any of that, including the crusty bread and the celery stalks that went with it, and the cheesecake afterwards for dessert.
Thank you. I appreciate your view on this.
I photographed a sun dog late in the day a couple of weeks ago. I wondered what would happen. They always show up ahead of bad weather, just sunlight reflecting off ice in the upper atmosphere, but still — well, we’re still having snow in the forecast and I want spring.
This one seems to be pointed in our direction.
They’ve been using hydrofluorocarbon air conditioners on the sun again.
No, no, it’s because of all those darn wind turbines which they have put up there.
I think you mean it’s all the solar farms sucking the life out of the sun, leaving it resembling a Swiss cheese.
The wind farms just disturb the solar winds, eventually sending hot solar winds to the poles where they melt all the polar bears and penguins.
I read somewhere (I believe it was WUWT), that the sun is just a hollow ball. Does this fit that description?
Why would anyone think that?
Remind me which of the patchwork of theories that make up solar theory, that explains this?
The thermonuclear model certainly doesn’t, why would it, that is junk science
Why do you believe that the thermonuclear model can’t explain the existence of magnetic fields on the sun?
Correction, patchwork of completely unrelated theories
Any recommendations on books or websites dealing specifically with the problem of electromagnetic solar interference on earth, before or during our use of electrical grids and appliances?
With that title, I was expecting to see a massive excavator digging away at the sun.
I was expecting something exciting at spaceweathernews.com This is just an ordinary kind of coronal hole. As of the time of this post, speed has not broken 500 kps and density remains pretty much the same. Geomagnetic field is still in the green. Fake news from NASA or a Saturday morning joke at WUWT?
It will take another day or two for the stream to sweep by the Earth, so stay tuned.
This particular coronal hole [or rather its magnetic structure] has been around for several years, recurring every 27 days as the sun rotates it into view. It has negative [into the sun] magnetic polarity, so some 4 days later it will show up at Earth in the interplanetary magnetic field. We monitor [have for more than 150 years] the Earth’s magnetic field for the effect of such streams. Here is a so-called Bartels Diagram of the magnetic polarity of the coronal hole stream in question:
http://www.leif.org/research/Coronal-Hole-Stream-Recent.png
The diagram shows [with symbols] the polarity for consecutive 27-day rotations. Our coronal hole in the post is marked in red. As you can see, we are still a couple of days away from the boundary. When the boundary [called a sector boundary] sweeps over us, geomagnetic activity picks up and aurorae intensify.
To clarify, each symbol marks the polarity for one day.
Thanks, I hadn’t heard that it has to do with sunspots which have mostly dissipated away.
So when the sun is very active how much accumulating feedback effect have we observed?
So when the sun is very active how much accumulating feedback effect have we observed?
I don’t understand the question?
Now that I think about it it’s not like thunderstorm cells and their daughter cells on Earth. When the formation area conditions are conducive you can watch the dissipation/generation pattern on weather radar.
2511 was a curious one indeed. Quite an X-ray event in that one.
2511 was a curious one indeed. Quite an X-ray event in that one
Indeed it was:
http://www.leif.org/research/Bartels-Rotation-2511.png
Thanks Dr. S., for making this coronal hole more interesting.
I’ve lost track of how many rotations this (now dead) AR has been around, Doc. Can you refresh me?
It is part of a larger structure that I just showed in my comment of April 7, 2018 at 9:35 am.
Answer: several years.
This is what the magnetic field looks like for the hole
http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/2018/04/07/f_HMImag_171pfss.jpg
Thanks! Haven’t I seen other ARs come and go around the edges of this hole?
I thought the unofficial official unit of area measurement was the “Rhode Island”.
Only East of the Mississippi . …. here in the West it is the Hellman.
lsvalgaard & A. W.,
Thanks. Always enjoyable.
Somewhere I have an old textbook with an older quote at the beginning that is something of this sort:
Many great researchers have studied the Sun for many years and have reached opposite (or varying) conclusions.
Seems some progress has been made.
Now, between rains, I have to plant a few Strawberries.,
John
I’m thinkin’ lots of the above folk are passing solar wind!
Who is to blame? The coal miners or the frackers?
Just wait till the Warmists get a hold of this! More evidence of global warming!
SpaceWeatherLive bemoans “drama” and “fake news” surrounding this recurring CH:
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/337/20180406-coronal-hole-faces-earth
@ur momisugly lsvalgaard ,
Is there ANYTHING new under the sun ??
Is there ANYTHING new under the sun ??
The sun is 4,600,000,000 years old, so the chance that there is anything new just when we are looking at it right now is vanishing small, so short answer is NO.
Ironically, when the Sun’s (or any ones) age reaches its maximum value, some new does happen. It dies.
😐
“The canyon-shaped hole is remarkably wide, stretching more than 700,000 km from end to end. “…….. So how many Thelma & Louise’s would it take to fill it up?
It means we’re doomed, of course.