00:03Sunspots may be temporarily cooler areas of the sun, but that doesn't mean they're quiet.
00:08Sunspots are locations where the sun's magnetic field lines snap and reconnect,
00:13often resulting in a solar flare and coronal mass ejection of solar particles.
00:17This particular sunspot was aimed directly at Earth last month when an X-class flare was ejected.
00:22It resulted in some communications disruptions on Earth, but also gorgeous auroras.
00:27Now NASA says the same spot has come around again, and every day it's letting out more flares, albeit weaker
00:33ones.
00:33Since the area has been viewable again, it has released two M-class flares.
00:37While we might be in the target area for those flares, M-class flares are 10 times weaker than their
00:42X-class counterparts.
00:44The sun also released 10 C-class flares, which are another 10 times weaker than the M-class variety.
00:49So what does that mean for Earthlings? Well, simply put, don't expect another light show.
00:53Still, the experts at Space Weather Live say, based on its current activity,
00:57there's a relatively high probability we might get another X-class flare from this sunspot before the sun turns away.
01:03With solar physicists saying, there's a 30% chance an X-class flare will erupt while pointed directly at Earth.
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