Close-up H-alpha image of a dark sunspot surrounded by bright radiating faculae and fine fibril patterns on the sun's chromosphere, with the limb visible below.

Sunspot in the Faculae

A compact sunspot group sits at the center of a bright, radiating faculae network, with fibrils sweeping outward across the granulated chromosphere like iron filings around a magnet.

Date: 10 February 2022