J. P. Major

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012 12:11PM

Sun, Moon and Spots

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The Moon transits the Sun on Feb. 21, 2012. (Image courtesy NASA/SDO and the AIA team.)

The Moon snuck in front of the Sun this morning from the perspective of NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO), sliding past the sunspots of active region 1422. For a sense of scale, those sunspots are easily several times larger than Earth!

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