Saturday, June 02, 2007

New Sunspot 960


Spaceweather.com has a knockout photograph of a big sunspot just now appearing over the limb of the sun. We can expect 960 to be active, with flare eruptions that disrupt shortwave communications, etc. The image at right comes from NASA's SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory .

As usual, we are entranced with the imagery of the universe that the web puts casually under our fingertips. One of our twitter friends posted a link to a pair of fascinating videos of the sun in the vicinity of a sunspot. Who knew we could know... well yeah, the scientists who are making it possible know. Thanks for sharing.

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