... Almost out of view from our fair planet, rotating around the Sun's western edge, giant sunspot region AR 10486 lashed out with another intense solar flare followed by a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on Tuesday, November 4th at about 1950 Universal Time. ... Northern and southern locales saw many a beautiful aurora over the last week, as particles from several large solar flares impacted the Earth. ... Yesterday, our Sun produced one of the most powerful solar flares in recorded history. ...