New Sunspot could produce M-class Flares
Posted by JAC on 5/5/2010, 6:56 am






New sunspot 1069 didn't exist yesterday.

Today it is growing rapidly with several dark, planet-sized cores and a complex magnetic field that harbors energy for C- and M-class solar flares














A solar wind gust hit Earth's magnetic field on May 2nd and triggered the longest-lasting geomagnetic storm of the year (so far).

At the height of the disturbance, Zoltan Kenwell photographed some "riotous auroras" over a lake near St. Paul, Alberta:





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