Post by ADMIN on Jun 30, 2006 13:14:02 GMT -5
Sunspot 898 appearing for first time on June 28, 2006.
Image © 2006 by Philippe Vercoutter.
Spaceweather.com reports: "Measuring 25,000 miles across, almost as wide as the planet Neptune, sunspot 898 lumbered over the sun's limb yesterday. Philippe Vercoutter of Ieper, Belgium, was one of the first to photograph it: 'This is a very active sunspot,' Vercoutter marveled, and he was right. Hours later, a magnetic filament rose out of the boiling froth and bent menacingly 'like a King Cobra ready to strike at the heart of the 'spot' says Gary Palmer who captured the scene in a photograph of his own. What will happen next?"
