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Posted on Thursday 28 October 2004
If you take a look at the solar activity icon in the left hand column you should
be able to see that there's a lot of activity going on right now on the Sun's surface. Currently there are six active
sunspots, the largest is nearly 10 times wider than
the Earth [link]
UPDATE: Apparently there has been more sunspot activity in the last 70 years than at any other time in the last 8000.
