Saturday, November 16, 2013

Solar Flares 11/16/2013

There's been some interesting goings on with the sun lately.


Image of sun shows two areas of sunspots, one arriving and one leaving

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/11/15/Image-of-sun-shows-two-areas-of-sunspots-one-arriving-and-one-leaving/UPI-62891384560285/#ixzz2ksCFPa5m


GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- NASA has released an image of the sun showing two sunspots -- one "coming" and one "going" -- both the size of Jupiter, astronomers say.
One, dubbed active region 1890, produced considerable solar activity in the past weeks including several mid-sized and significant flares, but has almost rotated off completely and will soon be out of sight from Earth, they said.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/11/15/Image-of-sun-shows-two-areas-of-sunspots-one-arriving-and-one-leaving/UPI-62891384560285/#ixzz2ksCN5SZM

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