Still have your eclipse glasses? You should use them to gaze upon this historically large sunspot, which is now 15 times wider than Earth.
The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Sunspot R3664 now stretches across nearly 124,300 miles , almost as big as the sun spot that appeared on the Sun’s surface during the Carrington Event —the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded, according to Space Weather .
Our host star goes through an 11-year cycle of fluctuating activity and we are currently coming up on the solar maximum of cycle 25. As a result, the Sun has been exhibiting a rise in the number of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections . The past four solar cycles have been relatively calm, but solar cycle 25 is unexpectedly active. Between May 5 and 6, the Sun released three X-class solar flares, while multiple CMEs were also observed on May 7 and 8.
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