H-alpha image of several sunspot groups with dark cores and swirling fibril patterns spread across the sun's granulated chromosphere, with the bright limb curving at the edge.

astrophotography / sun

Sunspot Parade

A chain of sunspot groups marches across the mid-latitudes of the chromosphere, each dark core wrapped in swirling penumbral fibrils that trace the sun's turbulent magnetic field.

Date
17 December 2021