# NASA's Illuminate Series (2024) (SVS14706)

Largest Sunspot in Almost a DecadeThis is the biggest sunspot we’ve seen in almost a decade!Sunspots are cooler, darker areas on the solar surface where the Sun’s magnetic field gets especially intense, often leading to explosive solar eruptions. This sunspot was so big that nearly 14 Earths could fit inside it! The eruptions from this sunspot resulted in the historic May 2024 geomagnetic storms, where the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as the Florida Keys.Video Credit: NASA/Beth AnthonyMusic Credit: “Chronicle of Time” by Guy Skornik \[SACEM\] and Elisabeth Skornik \[SACEM\] via Universal Production MusicFind the source imagery here.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - eMITS/Lacey Young, eMITS/Joy Ng, eMITS/Beth Anthony
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%27s_Illuminate_Series_(2024)_(SVS14706).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - eMITS/Lacey Young, eMITS/Joy Ng, eMITS/Beth Anthony
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/154350884?play=1)