Curmudgeon
By Chuck Cagara
Subscriber Chuck Cagara sends a photo of [Tuesday’s] sunspot activity. He took this through a special solar filter on the camera. DO NOT look directly at the sun with the naked eye.
The large visible spot to the middle left is AR3190 and is roughly four times the diameter of Earth. The current solar cycle (Cycle #25) is ramping up nicely.
From the internet: “The giant sunspot visible today may also be about to explode because it has an especially unstable magnetic field. AR3190 has a “beta-gamma-delta” magnetic field, meaning that it is more prone to spewing out more powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Solar flares are powerful jets of electromagnetic radiation shot out from the sun, usually from sunspots when their twisted magnetic field lines suddenly realign. Coronal mass ejections are clouds of solar plasma that are spat out from the sun’s surface during periods of intense activity.”
