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Giant unspot could hurl solar flares

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A "monster sunspot" more than 60,000 miles wide could send some powerful solar flares toward Earth on Wednesday, NASA says.

The sunspot -- actually a group of four spots, each larger than Earth, and smaller spots -- emerged over the weekend and was spotted by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory and amateur astronomers, Spaceweather.com reported (via Space.com). It tossed off a moderately strong M-class flare today, and is expected to follow up with even stronger flares, possibly even X class.

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I love astronomy so I find this stuff super fascinating.

I had to look up what an X Flare was, but here it is. (From here

Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to the peak flux (in watts per square meter, W/m2) of 100 to 800 picometer X-rays near Earth, as measured on the GOES spacecraft. Classification Peak Flux Range at 100-800 picometer (Watts/square meter) A < 10-7 B 10-7 - 10-6 C 10-6 - 10-5 M 10-5 - 10-4 X > 10-4

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