# Growing Sunspots A Full Disk View - February 2011

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.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growing_Sunspots_A_Full_Disk_View_-_February_2011.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- 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/18224763?play=1)