Sunspot 848 is ready to explode???
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SOLAR WIND: A high-speed solar wind stream is blowing past Earth, but it is doing little to spark geomagnetic storms. The stream is thin and not very gusty--hence its feeble effect. Bright auroras are unlikely.
BIG SUNSPOT: Sprawling sunspot 848 stretches more than 120,000 km from end to end--about the size of the planet Saturn. Yesterday, photographer Gary Palmer caught it peaking through the limbs of a tree near his home in Los Angeles, California:
This sunspot has a tangled "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. So far, however, no explosions have been observed and solar activity remains low.
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