Almost out of view fro our fair planet,rotating around theSun's western edge, giant sunspot regio AR 10486lashed outwith another intense solar flare followed bya larg coronalmass ejection (CME) on Tuesday, November 4that about 1950 Universal Time.The flare itself is seen here at the lower right in an extremeultraviolet image from th sun-staring SOHO spacecraft's EITcamera.Saturating the EIT camera pixels and detectors onother satellites, this giant X-classflare was among themost powerful ever recorde sincethe 1970s, the third such historicblast from AR 10486 within the last two weeks.While energetic particle radiation from the flare did causesubstantial radio interference, the associated CME is notexpected to trigger extremely widespread aurorae as it glances offthe magnetosphere, unlike th direct hits from last week's CMEs.Say farewell to the mighty AR 10486, for now.For the next two weeks, the sunspot region will be on the Sun' far side.
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