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A sunspot pairing

Salvo Lauricella, imaged from Syracuse, Italy

The large pair of sunspots in the active region AR 14079 illustrates their magnetically bipolar nature — one with north polarity and one with south — in this series of images taken May 1 in Hα, Ca-K, and white light.