Holes Bigger than the Earth Spotted in the Sun

A huge coronal hole that is hundred times bigger than the earth is spotted in the sun by NASA camera aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Jan. 1, 2015.

The irregularly shaped hole spans about 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) at its widest point, said Dr. C. Alex Young, associate director for science for the heliophysics division at the space agency's Goddard facility in Greenbelt, Maryland. Its total surface area is about 410 times that of the Earth, he said (see below for size comparison).

This is not the first time a hole was spotted in the sun but never of this size and in this sense.

According to NASA in Huffington Post, Coronal holes were first seen in photos taken by NASA astronauts in the 1970s. They aren't holes in the usual sense. Rather, they're colder, cooler regions where the sun's magnetic field reaches out into space. The holes can remain visible for five years or longer.

Americans however took to the social media commenting on this comically though. 

A Facebook user wrote:

“I blame Obama.”

Another pinned it on George W. Bush, “Come on, everyone knows it is Bush's fault :)”