A volatile region of the Sun, crackling with flares and blasting solar storms into space, is setting us up for some intense space weather in the nights ahead!

Over the past few weeks, solar astronomers and space weather enthusiasts, alike, have witnessed an amazing sequence of eruptions from the Sun. These coronal mass ejections, aka solar storms, occurred either on the opposite side of the Sun from us, or were aimed well away from Earth. However, all were attributed to a single group of sunspots, known as ACTIVE REGION 4274, which has rotated into view along the Sun's eastern limb just in the past few days.

[SUVI-304A-11-05-2025-labelled-w-CMEs] SUVI-304A-11-05-2025-labelled-w-CMEs

_The view of the Sun in the centre of this image, taken by the SUVI instrument on NOAA's GOES-19 weather

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