Historic Returns of Sunspots Causing Aurora Borealis – Newsweek

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The giant sunspot that sparked spectacular auroras around the globe earlier this month is about to face Earth again. That sunspot, AR3664, was about 15 times the width of Earth when it fired off a series of coronal mass ejections on May 10. These collided with our planet’s magnetic field and triggered the aurora borealis, … Read more