Huge Sunspots Visible

BREAKING SOLAR NEWS
Image: The farside spot is almost certainly old sunspot 822, which crossed the Earth-facing side of the sun two weeks ago. That photogenic sunspot will reappear on Dec. 9th or 10th when the sun's rotation turns it toward Earth again. Stay tuned. Image by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

BIG SUNSPOTS: There are two big spots on the sun today, but we can see only one of them. Sunspot 826 is plainly visible on the Earth-facing side of the sun. It has been growing madly in recent days and poses a threat for Earth-directed solar flares.
The other big sunspot is on the farside of the sun, almost precisely opposite sunspot 826. It appears in this helioseismic image of the whole sun: