Five NASA Spheres appear from nowhere! 30/12/10: They are back!

NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft yesterday filmed five new NASA Spheres! Just look, disappeared for months and now they are back, almost a year to the day, coincidence?
Or are NASA playing games, sometimes I think so........

Five minutes after I posted this the whole headline post was moved from the front page to a thumbnail on the left hand side of the Spaceweather website. coincidence?

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CORONAL HOLE: NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is monitoring a vast hole in the sun's atmosphere--a "coronal hole." It's the dark region bracketed by arrows in this extreme ultraviolet image taken during the early hours of Dec. 30th:

Coronal holes are places in the sun's atmosphere where the solar magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this coronal hole should reach Earth on Jan. 2nd or 3rd--the first solar wind stream of the New Year! High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
3D SUN: You can see this coronal hole in three dimensions on your iPhone or iPad. Download NASA's 3D Sun app for realtime images from STEREO and free solar activity alerts.

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