Astronomers are monitoring sunspot AR-4079, the largest of 2025, which is characterized by extreme magnetic complexity. The sunspot features over 100 \"Ellermann bombs\"—small but powerful magnetic explosions—and two massive dark cores that appear to be orbiting one another, a rare phenomenon that significantly increases the likelihood of major solar flares.
James Kaufman, World News Report, today, May 2, 2025.
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A giant ring of Ellermann bombs are exploding on our star.
Astronomers are monitoring the largest sunspot of 2025.
Sunspot 4079 stretches more than 140,000 kilometers
from end to end and has two dark cores, each large enough
to swallow Earth many times over, currently at any given moment.
Sunspot AR-4079 has over 100 Ellermann bombs exploding on it,
and I'll point some of those out here.
These are your small bright flashes
and they go all the way around this particular sunspot which
is enormous. Ellermann bombs
are magnetic explosions much smaller than true solar flares.
They look like pinpoints of light flickering on and off
in the sun's atmosphere named after physicists.
Ferdinand Ellermann, who studied them in the early 20th century,
a single Ellermann bomb releases more energy
than 100,000 World War II atomic bombs.
Now, y'all stay with me because we've got more
problems than just Ellermann bombs with this sunspot.
This is a two-scale placement of Earth on the photo.
Ellermann bombs are a sign of magnetic complexity in a sunspot.
Opposite polarities bump together, reconnect, and boom,
a full-fledged flare may not be very far behind.
Now, there's more.
Something else is happening to this large sunspot, AR-4079.
This is something I've never seen,
and I don't know if NASA and NOAA have seen it either.
They're worried about...
The primary dark cores slowly revolving like they're
in mutual orbit with each other.
This three-day movie that you see here
from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory shows the phenomenon.
I'm going to zoom in so you can see it better.
Now it's mighty hard to see, but they're actually orbiting one another
and slowly moving around clockwise, which is really a freak show.
Now, astronomers at JPL and NASA have pointed this out,
but they haven't told us the significance of it.
Quote, we don't know if they will complete a full revolution.
However, these motions may be twisting
the magnetic underpinnings of the sunspot group,
creating a tension that makes solar flares much more likely.
And there you have it, folks.
They're actually orbiting each other.
The dark cores.
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