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Huge Sunspot Facing the Earth: Watch It Live Today

A huge sunspot 11 times the size of Earth is facing our planet now and you can see live telescope views of the solar behemoth in a skywatching webcast today.

The giant sunspot AR1785 will star in a free webcast by the onlineskywatching website Slooh Space Camera Tuesday (July 9) at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) and last about 25 minutes.

You can watch the sunspot webcast live on SPACE.com, courtesy of Slooh.

It starts at 1:00 est.