Two Weeks in the Life of a Sunspot - HD

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.

Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/two-weeks-in-the-life-of-a-sunspot

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Music credit: Foraging at Dusk by Benjamin James Parsons