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20K views · 230 reactions | Highly active sunspot AR3664 grew tremendously from May 6-9, 2024. See a time-lapse of the region here. As of May 9, it was about 15-Earths wide. Read more  https://trib.al/Pf7P2Vl Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams / helioviewer.org| edited by Steve Spaleta | Space.com | Facebook

The Spinning Sunspot Visualizations by Tom Bridgman A Zoom-in to the sunspot group to watch it rotate. credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio | Astronomy Nation

Two Weeks in the Life of a Sunspot via NASA Sun Science Our satellites tracked this sunspot for nearly two weeks (July 5-17). It put on a show during its 13-day trip across the face of the sun, producing several solar flares, a coronal mass ejection and a solar energetic particle event. https://go.nasa.gov/2v357pO | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

• Sunspot/Active Region, Ellerman Bomb • Sunspots appear in a wide variety of shapes and forms. The darkest area of a sunspot (also the first to be observed) is called the umbrae. As the sunspot matures (becomes more intense), a less dark, outlying area of well-defined fibril-like structure develops around the umbrae - called penumbra. Sunspots can grow from an individual unipolar spot into more organized bipolar spot groups; or even evolve into immense, very complex sunspot groups with mixed ma