Despite being 93 million miles away, a hole on the sun’s surface could wreak havoc on Earth later this week.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has released a photo showing a triangular-shaped dark gap in the sun’s surface that’s 20 times larger than Earth.
This enormous hole, known as a coronal hole, has unleashed 1.8-million-mile-per-hour solar winds toward our planet, which will impact us on Friday.
Coronal holes – a common occurrence on the sun – are areas of open magnetic