A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity threatens to flash powerful solar flares in our planet’s direction.
The sunspot, named AR3780, appears to be getting bigger and bigger as it travels across the sun, marking another of the many sunspots that have been spotted during a 23-year-high for sunspot frequency.
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By Jess Thomson – Science Reporter:
A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity threatens to flash powerful solar flares in our planet’s direction.
The sunspot, named AR3780, appears to be getting bigger and bigger as it travels across the sun, marking another of the many sunspots that have been spotted during a 23-year-high for sunspot frequency.
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/sunspots-solar-flares-coronal-mass-ejections-1934755](https://www.newsweek.com/sunspots-solar-flares-coronal-mass-ejections-1934755)
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