COMPLEX SUNSPOTS ARE TURNING TOWARD EARTH: NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of an X-class solar flare today. If so, it will probably come from one of these sunspots now turning toward Earth:
Numbered AR3883 and AR3886, the two active regions are unusually complex. The trailing group (3886) looks more like a shotgun blast than an ordinary sunspot, with more than 10 scattered dark cores. Mixed-polarity magnetic fields arcing between those cores could easily reconnect and explode.

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