Full-disk image of the sun's surface with a large bright spot apparent

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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:06:00 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

   Managed to catch a just-shy-of-X1-class flare a few hours ago when I put my scope out on the deck.

   The complex chaos of magnetic fields — that is much, _much_ larger than the size of Earth — designated as Region 3664 and Region 3668 (center right sunspot smudge) has been spawning a great number of flares recently, flinging an truly stupendous amount of energy and relativistic particles out into the solar system.

   #solar #astrophotography