A little science for a Friday (Sci-Fri?) afternoon! How cool is this? Even cooler zoomed.
From space.com:
“One of the largest sunspots in years has appeared on the sun, darkening part of its glowing face.
The massive sunspot, called AR1339, is about 50,000 miles long and 25,000 miles wide. For comparison, Earth itself is only 8,000 miles wide.
The sunspot behemoth isn’t yet facing our planet, but was spotted today by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. The spacecraft’s photos of the giant sunspot show the solar region as it comes into view on the northeastern edge, or limb, of the sun.”
Sun might want to have a doctor take a look at that.
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