{"id":19379,"date":"2025-09-13T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:55:08","slug":"butterfly-shaped-hole-appears-on-the-sun-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19379\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly-shaped hole appears on the Sun | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1466\" height=\"1413\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(SDO\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>By Dean Murray<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers&#8217; hearts were a-flutter this week when a <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/09\/10\/astronomers-capture-stunning-cosmic-butterfly-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">butterfly-shaped<\/a> hole appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/07\/17\/250000-mile-long-canyon-of-fire-appears-on-the-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The giant coronal hole was spotted facing <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/07\/17\/mini-ai-satellite-reveals-earth-looking-like-a-masterpiece-from-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Earth<\/a>, likely firing solar winds at our planet that could lead to spectacular auroras.<\/p>\n<p>A coronal hole is a cooler, less dense area in the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere where magnetic field lines open into space, allowing fast solar wind to escape.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(SDO\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>Science website EarthScience said: &#8220;A large coronal hole has rotated into a geoeffective position, where it\u2019s capable of affecting Earth. And it should now be sending its fast solar wind our way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle was captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/a> (SDO), a spacecraft that keeps an eye on our star from about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(SDO\/NASA via SWNS) By Dean Murray Astronomers&#8217; hearts were a-flutter this week when a butterfly-shaped hole appeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[20671,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-19379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-dean-murray","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}