Luckily for earth the massive sunspot that formed fast has now moved out of its position to menace our pale blue dot. But that is small comfort when you take into consideration how fast that spot formed and turned into a colossal villain. It was many times the size of earth.. Experts thought an M or X class flare would have belched from it. We are quite lucky it didn't. However the fact it formed how it did shows we may be entering the period when we are real action on the sun, and potentially dangerous action on earth if a mega flare does emit from the ball of gas in space..
