Maybe I don’t understand the science, but there seems to be something amiss when you add all these statements together.
“it is facing away from us, for now.”
“as Earth moves around the host star, the sunspot could fire a solar flare right at us.”
“Future eruptions could be aimed at Earth as the sunspot turns toward us in the days ahead.”
So, facing away from us, but as the Earth moves around the sun, the sunspot can turn towards us in the days ahead.
Are they meaning 180 days? Because that’s half a year, and it would take that long for the Earth to move around the sun to get to the spot facing away from us.
What am I missing?
The sun rotates too, about every 27 days.
Also sunspots are notoriously transitory.
What you are missing is that the sun rotates.
So we are safe if we just stay on the dark side of the sun?
You’re not missing anything —it’s the same, typically poor writing when it comes to Science topics you get lately…
As stated in other replies, the sun rotates on its own axis in less than a month, and most sunspot groups only last weeks at best.
The sun takes around 35-40 days to rotate depending on the latitude. Faster at the equator
The sun rotates.
I’ll have to look up the period of solar rotation.
I used to know it...
The sun also turns on it’s axis.
What am I missing?
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Teeth? Hair?