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HUGE sunspots turning toward Earth

Nov 6, 2011 6:00 PMNov 20, 2019 2:04 AM

As the Sun rotates roughly once per month, we see different features come into view... and the latest is an enormous sunspot system which just came around the limb of the Sun:

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