Mid eclipse with an amazing sunspot! Sunspot 2192 is the largest sunspot group recorded so far in Solar Cycle 24 which began in 2009. It is about the size of Jupiter... it's Huge!!! You could fit 1000 Earth's inside Jupiter!!!. Solar cycles typically last about 11 years and chart the rise and decline of sunspots, flares and other solar activity.
What an amazing difference dark clear skys make!
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, first discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781. M101 is a large galaxy comparable i size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar mmassesmasses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.
