Astronomers Have Identified A Sunspot Like No Other Ever Seen!

James Kauffman, World News Report, today. Astronomers have identified a sunspot like no other ever seen. Normally, sunspots are dark in the middle and bright on the outside boundary. Sunspot 4220 is just the opposite. This is not a reverse polarity sunspot, as I will show you. It just has a very hot center surrounded by a cooler dark boundary instead of a dark core. Most sunspots appear dark in the middle as you'll see the sunspot on the right here because that's where they are cool. In a sunspot, strong magnetic fields block the flow of heat from beneath the sun's surface. The blockage creates a cool and relatively dark core. However, the center of sunspot 4220 is not cool. Instead, it is hot and bright. Perhaps a buoyant plume of plasma is rising with sufficient force to push aside the usual magnetism, creating a hot core inside a cooler ring. Whatever is happening, one thing is clear. Sunspot 4220 merits watching. Strangely shaped sunspots with mixed up magnetic fields are the ones most likely to explode. We will show you a little bit more about that sunspot now. Head over to NSO Gong, Gong Intensogram. We see the sunspot group. The strange part is to the right here. This is still a beta gamma sunspot and it's not a delta sunspot yet. It goes to 42.15, right above that. But the strange part that no one can explain is this area right here. I'll show y'all a close-up. Not as easily seen on SDO HMI magnetogram. Looks like this was taken this morning on the 20th, and it looks like it was just taken. This is not a reverse polarity sunspot, as you'll see the black or negative over the positive here. Whatever they're seeing is this area right here. Now, again, they said that they've never seen anything like this before. They've asked that backyard astronomers keep an eye on the sunspot group. Now, we see some small dark cores in the outer line boundary here. This is all one sunspot group, one large sunspot group, a group of sunspots, 4220. And again, this is like nothing they've ever seen. You can see the other sunspots both in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. Appear to be, well, appear to have a dark core surrounded by a hot, a hot boundary. Here they're telling us we have a very hot center surrounded by a cooler boundary. So, again, something they say they've never seen. They don't even have a name for it. Not a good feeling. It doesn't look like much to me, but this is what the big hoopla is surrounding. Is this the start of a micro nova sunspot? I have no idea. And I don't think they do either. God bless you and yours. Please share and please subscribe if you haven't. And always remember, anything's possible in Bizarro World.