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Credit & Copyright: Juan Manuel PÈrez Rayego
Explanation:
What's that on the
Sun?
Over the past two weeks, one of the most energetic sunspot regions of recent years
crossed the face of the Sun.
Active Region 1429, visible above as the group of dark
spots on the Sun's upper right, blasted out several
solar flares and
coronal mass ejections
since coming around the
edge of the Sun almost a month ago.
Fast moving particles from these
solar explosions have impacted
the Earth and been responsible for many colorful auroras
seen over the past two weeks.
The picturesque foreground features trees and birds near
Merida,
Spain, where the above image was
taken about a week ago.
Although AR 1429 has continued to rotate
to the right and gone around the limb of the Sun -- as seen from the Earth -- monitoring of the region will be continued by one of the
STEREO satellites, however,
which is orbiting the
Sun well ahead of the Earth.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 May 28 Á Solar X Flare as Famous Active Region Returns
- APOD: 2024 May 26 Á A Solar Filament Erupts
- APOD: 2024 February 19 Á Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
- Circling the Sun
- APOD: 2023 December 11 Á Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- APOD: 2023 October 25 Á Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset