This is the biggest sunspot we’ve seen in almost a decade! 🤩☀️ Sunspots are cooler, darker areas on the solar surface where the Sun’s magnetic field gets especially intense, often leading to explosive solar eruptions. This sunspot was so big that nearly 14 Earths could fit inside it! The eruptions from this sunspot resulted in the historic May 2024 geomagnetic storms, where the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as the Florida Keys. NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world

🌞 Sun activity for November 4, 2023, The 20th anniversary of the largest solar flare🤩 🥳 😮 ❗ Today is the 20th anniversary of the largest solar flare of the space age. Between October 19 and November 5, 2003—during the waning part of sunspot cycle 23—a set of three surprisingly large sunspot regions emerged on the Earth-facing disk. They came into view after a period of relative calm on the sun. These massive, magnetically complex regions were the source of some of the largest space weather e

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