STRONGEST SOLAR FLARE OF THE CURRENT CYCLE: Yesterday, May 14th (1651 UT), sunspot AR3664 unleashed the strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle--an X8.7-category blast from beyond the sun's western limb. X marks the spot in this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. 📑Spaceweather | The Watchmen's Earth and Space connection

🚨 Solar Flare Alert: Sunspot AR3883 Unleashes an X-Class Flare On November 7, 2024, the Sun emitted an intense X2.3 solar flare from active sunspot AR3883, peaking at 13:40 UTC. This powerful burst of radiation caused brief radio blackouts over the Atlantic. Fortunately, it appears the flare did not trigger a significant coronal mass ejection (CME), sparing Earth from magnetic disruptions. However, with Solar Cycle 25 in an active phase, more solar activity could follow, potentially enhancing a

• Sunspot/Active Region, Ellerman Bomb• Sunspots appear in a wide variety of shapes and forms. The darkest area of a sunspot (also the first to be observed) is called the umbrae. As the sunspot matures (becomes more intense), a less dark, outlying area of well-defined fibril-like structure develops around the umbrae - called penumbra. Sunspots can grow from an individual unipolar spot into more organized bipolar spot groups; or even evolve into immense, very complex sunspot groups with mixed mag