A Giant Spot Is Crossing The Sun And You Don't Even Need a Telescope to See It

In 1859, Richard Carrington was using his telescope to project an image of the Sun on a screen when he noticed two brilliant beads of blinding white light over the sunspots intensified rapidly, and became kidney-shaped. What Carrington saw was a magnetic explosion on the Sun

A sunspot four times the size of Earth is visible right now — here's how to see it without a telescope

See amazing new sun photos from the world's largest solar telescope