sunspot
noun
sun·spot
ˈsən-ˌspät 
: any of the dark spots that appear at times on the sun's surface and are usually visible only through a telescope
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All three eruptions came from sunspot region AR 4168, which rapidly developed a more complex magnetic structure over the weekend.
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The solar flare, categorized as X-class in scale—the highest scale, was triggered by an active region of a sunspot on June 19 at 11:50 p.m. UTC.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Continent-size sunspots appear to swirl near the heart of the sun’s inner atmosphere in the close-up.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
But this method, called transit spectroscopy, sometimes has a hard time distinguishing cloudy atmospheres from absent ones, and stellar messiness like sunspots can further complicate interpretations.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The solar flare, categorized as X-class in scale—the highest scale, was triggered by an active region of a sunspot on June 19 at 11:50 p.m. UTC.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Continent-size sunspots appear to swirl near the heart of the sun’s inner atmosphere in the close-up.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
But this method, called transit spectroscopy, sometimes has a hard time distinguishing cloudy atmospheres from absent ones, and stellar messiness like sunspots can further complicate interpretations.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Sunspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunspot. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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sunspot
noun
sun·spot
-ˌspät
: one of the dark spots that appear from time to time on the sun's surface and are usually visible only through a telescope
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