A cat-shaped hole appeared in the sun

Scientists have discovered an unusual cat-shaped coronal hole in the Sun. Charged gas particles are spreading from it into space at high speed. This was reported by the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

According to experts, the cat-shaped image of the Sun became blind after turning it. In fact, it is a coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere—a region where the gas particles are sparser and cooler than the surrounding regions. The stream of particles spreading from such regions is called "solar wind". When it reaches the Earth, it can cause magnetic storms.