NASA’s SDO images from March 16, 2015, reveal not one but two massive holes in the sun, decribed as “dark patches, known as coronal holes.” According to the NASA.gov website, the larger of the holes, near the southern pole, covers anywhere from 6 to 8 percent of the total surface, 142 billion miles, while the one at the opposite pole they approximate as stretching 3.8 billion miles on the sun. MORE