Scientists call the sun holes "coronal holes." They are gaps in the sun’s magnetic field which make a hole through the star’s super-hot outer atmosphere – the corona – allowing gas to escape, according to a NASA description.

Japan’s Hinode sun-watching satellite photographed the sun’s two coronal holes on Feb. 1. In the image, one coronal hole appears near the top center of the sun while another one – a polar coronal hole – is visible near the bottom of the view. 

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It is an awesome picture. I find it funny it’s not really making any major news media outlets. As you might know we have been in a deep solar minimum [see: Link1 Link2] and the sun seems like it might be roaring back to life maybe. At Spaceweather.com they are watching a behemoth sunspot number 1158 which is growing very rapidly. [see: video] This sunspot is “cracking” with C-Class solar flares pointed directly at earth.

The active region is now more than 62,137 miles wide with at least a dozen Earth-sized dark cores scattered beneath its unstable magnetic canopy. According to Spaceweather.com Earth-directed eruptions are likely within hours. What will be the outcome? No one knows absolutely for sure. It can do anything from knock out grids or knock out satellites. What you can be sure of is that this is exactly one of the signs in the sun. 

I normally like keep up with the sun and what is going on with it. Should I hear any updates I will post them here at GJCN.org

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They have this Alien Deception thing in full swing…

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The good news Christians is that I don’t believe we (The Church) will be here. So don’t worry. Put your faith in God.

Thursday, August 12th, is such a night.

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NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.

Layers of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image]

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It’s a Space Age record."

The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.

"Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert.

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Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s.

"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this."

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"Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour."

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