Giant New Sunspot And X-Class Solar Flare Could Bring Bright Auroras

A sunspot 10 times larger than Earth has appeared on the surface of the sun just as an X1.9-rated solar flare occurred.

Massive Sunspot 10 Times Bigger Than Earth Raises Chances Of Powerful Solar Flares

On December 1, 2025, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed a large spot on the Sun, known as Active Region (AR) 4294-96.
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NASA's Perseverance rover detects giant sunspot 15 times wider than Earth rotating toward our planet

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the ...
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Massive sunspot seen by world’s largest solar telescope Massive sunspot seen by world’s largest solar telescope

Each pixel of this image of a sunspot is roughly 10 kilometers. The photo was captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i using a new instrument. (Credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA) SPACE ...
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First image from the world’s largest solar telescope captures the sun in unheard-of detail

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A newly released ...
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A telescope’s powerful new tool may offer a better way to predict solar storms

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded a major milestone atop an active volcano in Hawaii, capturing a detailed image of a cluster of sunspots with the telescope’s new Visible ...
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This ‘Large and Unstable’ Sunspot Just Slammed Earth With Its Strongest Flare Yet

An Earth-facing sunspot region has been raging with massive eruptions of hot gas that have caused disruptions to our communications systems—and there’s still more to come. On Tuesday at 5:49 p.m. ET, ...