From the "Chicken Little Sky is Falling" files:

NASA has revealed that a massive hole, measuring more than ten per cent of the Sun's surface area, has opened up on our star.

By JON AUSTIN
PUBLISHED: 20:06, Thu, May 26, 2016 | UPDATED: 01:37, Fri, May 27, 2016

he enormous hole takes up much of the top half of the starNASA
The enormous hole takes up much of the top half of the star

The remarkable footage was captured by the US space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory between May 17 and 19.

The video shows a giant dark area on the star's upper half, known as a coronal hole.

A NASA spokesman said: "Coronal holes are low-density regions of the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona.

It's massive: The footage was recorded between May 17 and 19.NASA
It's massive: The footage was recorded between May 17 and 19
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"Because they contain little solar material, they have lower temperatures and thus appear much darker than their surroundings.

"Coronal holes are visible in certain types of extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically invisible to our eyes, but is colorised here in purple for easy viewing."

NASA says the huge hole is actually not of great concern, but it remains unclear why the coronal holes actually form.

But it does mean that large amounts of solar winds, that cause the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights to form, have been blasted to Earth.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/67...-up-on-our-star