Two Weeks in the Life of a Sunspot (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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On July 5, 2017, the Solar Dynamics Observatory watched an active region -- an area of intense and complex magnetic fields -- rotate into view. During its 13-day trip across the face of the Sun, the active region put on a show for several NASA Sun-watching satellites, producing several solar flares, a coronal mass ejection and a solar energetic particle event.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/SOHO/CCMC/SWRC/Genna Duberstein, producer

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