Wednesday, July 11, 2012

AR 1520 --Swirling Chaos


AR 1520 captured today under somewhat better seeing conditions than yesterday. Pretty much the entire, 200,000 mile long "archipelago" is captured in this image.  This region is now capable of producing X-Class flares.

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