The face of the Sun is littered with Sunspots as I write this. In fact, one sunspot is so big that if you have safe observing equipment like solar eclipse glasses, you can see the sunspot with the naked eye if you have good vision.
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But, the large sunspot isn’t the only area of interest. The smaller cluster of strewn out spots to the right of the large sunspot is also active. In fact, yesterday it unleashed an X-class solar flare that can be seen in the following 131 Angstrom movie of the Sun taken using the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO):
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Then, following up on this event, a coronal mass ejection that is Earth directed was unleashed. You can see it as the puffy ring radiating from the Sun in this Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) movie:
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In the coming days, no later than August 11, 2024, we might want to be on the lookout for aurorae that could be triggered when the CME arrives.

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Incoming coronal mass ejection​
by Jeffrey Bryant​
Wolfram Community, STAFF PICKS, August 9, 2024
​https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3244834