The Sun erupted in class X-9.3 and x-2.2 flares on 9/6/17, visible to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SD

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Do you still have your eclipse glasses? Go out and look at the sun again! There is a big visible cluster of sun spots lurking there. A tiny blotch suggesting that our great god has sinned - or is bleeding from our errant ways. I think that's the scientific term. Associated with these spots was a large solar CME, which explains why I have been ( Read more... )