Heart Shaped Sunspot spotted from Aguadilla

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La mancha solar tiene forma de corazón y en días recientes su tamaño aumentó. (Suministrada / Efraín Morales / SAC)

A huge heart shaped sunspot with at least two times the diameter of Earth was captured by camera from Puerto Rico. Efraín Morales, from the Caribbean Astronomy Society, captured the images using a telescope with a hydrogen-alpha filter.

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