Big Sunspot, Big Effects
March 13, 2012
This is the sunspot region AR 1429 that generated several major solar storms recently. The video covers nine days (March 4 – 12, 2012). Notice how the spot is almost always changing as its magnetic fields realign themselves. The images are white light images called intensity grams.
Credit: NASA SDO
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Technology Internet, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Climate change, Environment, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Magnetic field, Solar cycle, Vortices, Sunspot, Sun
