An enormous filament of magnetism slithering over the sun’s northeastern limb

An enormous filament of magnetism slithering over the sun’s northeastern limb

Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring sine wave 400,000 km long.  It’s an enormous filament of magnetism slithering over the sun’s northeastern limb:One of the wave troughs appears to be passing through the core of sunspot 1282. If so, an eruption

Several sunspots have popped up around the visible solar disk

Several sunspots have popped up around the visible solar disk

Sunspots are emerging at several locations around the solar disk, peppering the Earth-side of the sun with active regions. Of particular interest is fast-growing sunspot 1282, shown here in an August 31st snapshot from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:AR1282 has