"This morning (May 29) I pointed my solar telescope through a gap in the clouds to look at the new 'hot-spot' on the sun - AR11226," reports Pete Lawrence of Selsey, UK. "Wow! I'm glad I did. The bright flaring regions within the sunspot group are incredible." Caught in mid-erupton, the active region nearly saturated his camera:
"A white light image of the region shows the underlying sunspot complex," says Lawrence. "Impressive!"
Sunspot 1226 is the most active of several sunspots now emerging across the solar disk. It is crackling with C-class solar flares, and NOAA forecasters say there is a 40% chance of even stronger M-flares during the next 24 hours. Stay tuned /Space Weather