'More so than a smiley face, its eyes are like gleaming laser beams...'
Cute as the photo is, it also signals real-life solar events that could be devastating here on Earth.and other outlets describe, coronal holes like these only occur when our star is getting ready to spew solar wind at us at extraordinary velocities.
"More so than a smiley face, its eyes are like gleaming laser beams sending particles that can cause severe disruptions to the atmosphere on Earth," Brian Keating, a physics professor at the University of California at San Diego, toldIf those particles hit Earth in lower doses, they'll result in gorgeous Aurora Borealis light shows, Keating said. But if they come in droves, they could cause huge electromagnetic storms that and majorly destabilize our telecommunication equipment.
While there was a similar coronal hole face apparition in 2014, Keating said that we've been long overdue for a big storm — and indeed, sun scientists have been warning about the
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