🌞 Sun activity for November 21, 2023: It’s a potpourri of sunspots 😱 🥳 Today’s top news: Yesterday started with three active regions (sunspot groups), then bang, there were nine. Wow, that is crazy. 😎 This partially came about because new regions emerged on the disk. The most notable part of this sudden explosion of spots came from AR3490, which rotated further into view as well as growing into multiple separate groups of sunspots. 😵‍💫 It must have been a bit challenging for the space weat

2.2K views · 204 reactions | Sunspots are dark areas on the Sun’s surface. These solar freckles are one of the ways scientists track the Sun’s activity cycles — and they’re also a stellar way to celebrate #NationalSugarCookieDay! Here’s a kid’s guide to making sunspot cookies. ☀️ https://go.nasa.gov/3dZHxAk | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook