Strong M9-Class Solar Flare - AR2192 is 125,000 km Wide, Almost as Big as the Planet Jupiter

MONSTER SUNSPOT: The biggest sunspot of the current solar 
cycle is turning toward Earth  http://spaceweather.com/

This behemoth active region is 125,000 km wide, almost as big as the planet Jupiter

LOTS OF SOLAR FLARES: During the past 48 hours, monster sunspot AR2192 has unleashed seven M-class solar flares. The most powerful of the bunch (Oct 22nd at 0159 UT) was an M9-class eruption that almost crossed the threshold into X-territory

A few days ago, AR2192 unleashed an X1-class solar flare. Since then the sunspot has almost doubled in size and developed an increasingly unstable ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field. It would seem to be just a matter of time before another strong explosion occurs.   

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