Two Weeks in the Life of a Sunspot
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Music credit: Foraging at Dusk by Benjamin James Parsons
On July 5, 2017, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched AR26665, an active region — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — rotate into view on the sun. The satellite continued to track the region as it grew and eventually rotated across the sun and out of view on July 17.
![GIF of AR26665 GIF of AR26665](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
GIF of AR26665
![GIF of CME released by AR26665 after it completed a trip across the face of the sun. This view is from NASA's STEREO mission, and was observed on the far side of the sun on July 23, 2017. GIF Credit:NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/STEREO/Bill Thompson GIF of CME released by AR26665 after it completed a trip across the face of the sun. This view is from NASA's STEREO mission, and was observed on the far side of the sun on July 23, 2017. GIF Credit:NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/STEREO/Bill Thompson](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
GIF of CME released by AR26665 after it completed a trip across the face of the sun. This view is from NASA's STEREO mission, and was observed on the far side of the sun on July 23, 2017. GIF Credit:
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/STEREO/Bill Thompson
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