Massive X-class solar flare erupted from sun
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Large solar flare erupted on the sun last Saturday, scientists say
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The largest solar telescope on Earth has gotten the sharpest glimpse ever of a sunspot.
Vaguely resembling a sunflower or the Eye of Sauron from
The Lord of the Rings the spot appears as a dark blemish wreathed by ribbons of plasma that have been sculpted by magnetic fields sprouting from the spot’s center. At roughly 15,000 kilometers across, the entire spot could comfortably engulf Earth with room to spare.
The image was captured last January by the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on Maui in Hawaii, observatory director Thomas Rimmele and colleagues report in the December 4
SN: 1/29/20). The ability to see details as small as 20 kilometers across may help researchers get at the root of enduring mysteries about the sun (