This movie plays a two-week long view of the Sun, sampled every hour, covering two weeks in the middle of February 2011. While the solar disk starts out featureless, eventually small groups of sunspots (the darker regions) emerge, grow, and then rotate out of view.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
2012-01-03
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