Well, the big news in astronomy circles these days is that a really large sunspot group has formed on the Sun and has rotated into view on the Sun's face. The Sun has cycles of about 11 years that go from no sunspots to large numbers of spots. Recently we have been coming out of a low period. But this spectacular grouping is an exiting jump in activity. So when it appeared, I grabbed my camera and a whole lot of other stuff, and managed to get a decent photograph. I have posted both the Sun's full disk so you get a sense of the scale, and a close-up of the large group.
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