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Daisy Dobrijevic

Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares from hyperactive sunspots (video)

Two image still of the solar flares erupting from the surface of the sun. large bright eruptions are visible blasting off from the sun.

The most active sunspot of Solar Cycle 25, AR3663, has done it again! Launching yet another X-class solar flare as it approaches the sun's western limb. And it's not alone; its sunspot 'cousin' AR3664 also unleashed an X-flare and several M-class solar flares. The pair of sunspots don't look like stopping anytime soon. 

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