Thursday, November 6, 2014

Largest sunspot since 1990 burps flares for 8 days



Published on Nov 6, 2014
Video courtesy: NASA
The Earth’s biggest sunspot in over two decades, called sunspot AR2192, unleashed a barrage of solar flares, including five in the strongest classification - X-class - over a period of eight days from October 19 to October 27, a NASA video shows.