A coronal hole forms in the sun’s outer atmosphere (or corona) where a gap in the magnetic field lets the solar wind (gases spewing from the sun’s surface) flow out much more quickly than usual. The particles can disrupt satellites orbiting Earth and cause geomagnetic storms.
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