Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the biggest sunspot we’ve seen in over a decade!
Sunspots are cooler, darker areas on the solar surface where the Sun’s magnetic field gets especially intense, often leading to explosive solar eruptions. This sunspot was so big that nearly 14 Earths could fit inside it! The eruptions from this sunspot resulted in the historic May 2024 geomagnetic storms, where the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as the Florida Keys.
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Music Credit: “Chronicle of Time” by Guy Skornik [SACEM] and Elisabeth Skornik [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
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This is the biggest sunspot we’ve seen in over a decade!
Sunspots are cooler, darker areas on the solar surface where the Sun’s magnetic field gets especially intense, often leading to explosive solar eruptions. This sunspot was so big that nearly 14 Earths could fit inside it! The eruptions from this sunspot resulted in the historic May 2024 geomagnetic storms, where the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as the Florida Keys.
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
Music Credit: “Chronicle of Time” by Guy Skornik [SACEM] and Elisabeth Skornik [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706 While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706
For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit
nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
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· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
